Teaching our students how to improve their writing can be a challenge. It is often difficult for students and teachers to identify what makes one sentence clearer than another, or what causes some writing to flow well and other writing to flow poorly. Students and teachers need a common language, both to identify problems and to suggest solutions for murky writing. This article presents eight mini-activities or stations, each 10-15 minutes long, that can be used together or as separate activities added to other lab sessions. The activities could also potentially be used as outside of class exercises. Each activity introduces a strategy for improving students? writing and allows students to practice the strategy. These activities are used during the second semester of Washington College’s Introductory Biology sequence after students have mastered the basics of the lab report and have prepared a draft of their first paper of the semester.
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