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Co-written by members of the Writing Center and the English and Chemistry departments of Seattle University, this piece in the WAC Journal likens the lab report with the term paper, calling both of these things “pseudo-academic” or “school-genres,” that is, neither of those genres of writing is ever practiced by working professionals. Born out of a frustration with senior level students’ inability to create persuasive, informative capstone projects in chemistry, this article pushes to get rid of the lab report in favor of something more useful and professionally engaging.

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-Sixten