Practice in Critical Reading as a Method to Improve Scientific Writing.

The article describes a method of teaching some important phases of technical writing as part of a normal laboratory course. Faculty member employing this technique selects a suitable paper from the literature, prepares a sentence outline and introduces a small number of flaw into the paper. Then, the material is retyped and handed to the students to be analyzed. For a simplified version of this method, only step one will be used and the discussion will be modified. The simple technique can be refined by introducing more subtle flaws into the discussion and include the introduction, the summary and conclusion or even the experimental section and the result.