Teaching scientific writing in biology classes is challenging for both students and instructors. This article offers
and reviews several useful ‘toolkit’ items that improve student writing. These include sentence and paper-length
templates, funnelling and compartmentalisation, and preparing compendiums of corrections. In addition, students
benefit from reviewing scientific figures and learning about the verbs used in scientific papers. The
approaches and exercises presented in this paper empower students in their development of a personal writing
style. Often, however, the best tools are those that students develop with each other, a method of tool building
addressed in this article

• The student writing toolkit: enhancing undergraduate teaching of scientific writing in the biological sciences

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