Developing strong communicative ability amongst science graduates, especially in science communication, has been included as a fundamental learning outcome in some science degree programmes. This article focuses on a compulsory academic literacy course for first-level undergraduates that is aimed at developing academic reading and writing skills beyond the considerations of deficit language proficiency. It straddles the general, discipline-specific dichotomy in the skills aimed at, course content, and materials used. It targets two core science communication skills in addition to general academic literacy. In addition, the content and materials consist of popular science and media texts to facilitate the discussion of scientific ideas made accessible to the lay reader. It investigates course effectiveness on developing coherence in students’ writing. Results obtained suggest that indicators of coherence, especially in the integration of source ideas and writers’ proposition and the logical progression of textual ideas, are correlated to the difference in improved essay scores.

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教师合作在科普文本中教授学术素养：案例研究

培养科学毕业生之间的强大沟通能力，尤其是科学传播能力，已被列为一些科学学位课程的基本学习成果。本文重点介绍一门本科一年级必修的学术素养课程，该课程旨在发展学术阅读和写作技能，超越语言能力不足的考虑。它跨越了针对技能、课程内容和所用材料的一般的、特定于学科的二分法。除了一般的学术素养外，它还针对两项核心科学交流技能。此外，内容和材料包括科普和媒体文本，以方便非专业读者对科学思想的讨论。它调查课程对培养学生写作连贯性的有效性。获得的结果表明连贯性指标，特别是在源思想和作者命题的整合以及文本思想的逻辑进展方面，与提高论文分数的差异相关。