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Seth Clabough is a professor and published writer/scholar. His work appears in places like Barely South ,the Atlantic (rpt), The Chronicle of Higher Education, Blackbird, Litro Magazine, New Writing, Women’s Studies, Magma Poetry, the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, alongside Pulitzer Prize-winner Anothony Doerr (Hearing Voices -Kingston University Press) and in numerous other journals and magazines.
Ploughshares Blog selected his work for their national "Best Short Story of the Week" column; other work has been editor-nominated for the Luminaire Award for Best Prose, story South's "Million Writer Award," Best of the Net- 2016, and the Queen's Ferry Press Award. He has a PhD in English from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth where he won the LBA Fiction Prize. He directs the Communication Center at Randolph-Macon College.
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Scientific writing is an important communication and learning tool in neuroscience, yet it is a s... more Scientific writing is an important communication and learning tool in neuroscience, yet it is a skill not adequately cultivated in introductory undergraduate science courses. Proficient, confident scientific writers are produced by providing specific knowledge about the writing process, combined with a clear student understanding about how to think about writing (also known as metacognition). We developed a rubric for evaluating scientific papers and assessed different methods of using the rubric in inquiry-based introductory biology classrooms. Students were either 1) given the rubric alone, 2) given the rubric, but also required to visit a biology subject tutor for paper assistance, or 3) asked to self-grade paper components using the rubric. Students who were required to use a peer tutor had more negative attitudes towards scientific writing, while students who used the rubric alone reported more confidence in their science writing skills by the conclusion of the semester. Overall, students rated the use of an example paper or grading rubric as the most effective ways of teaching scientific writing, while rating peer review as ineffective. Our paper describes a concrete, simple method of infusing scientific writing into inquiry-based science classes, and provides clear avenues to enhance communication and scientific writing skills in entry-level classes through the use of a rubric or example paper, with the goal of producing students capable of performing at a higher level in upper level neuroscience classes and independent research.
Writers in Education (National Association of Writers in Education)
New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing, Feb 12, 2013
This paper explores how elements of quantum physics might be applied to the creation of a novel. ... more This paper explores how elements of quantum physics might be applied to the creation of a novel. It offers an overview of the 'Physics Fiction' tradition. The paper considers how such elements might be used in a novel and addresses how these elements can work to support larger concerns of the text. The author provides specific examples of such applications in his own work.
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Seth Clabough’s All Things Await (ISBN 978-0-9915622-7-5) is a literary, comedic debut novel abo... more Seth Clabough’s All Things Await (ISBN 978-0-9915622-7-5) is a literary, comedic debut novel about Lightly, an impossibly good-looking star quarterback from an elite Virginia college, who drags along an unlikely sidekick—the immensely unpopular and overweight Santana Montana—to a remote Costa Rican fishing village in search of a unifying vision—a secret location where he might glimpse the parallel universes predicted by quantum physics. Informed by quantum theory and driven by the desire to outrun the dark grip of a family trauma from his childhood, Lightly sets out on an impromptu picaresque adventure that is at once absurd and poignant.
Scientific writing is an important communication and learning tool in neuroscience, yet it is a s... more Scientific writing is an important communication and learning tool in neuroscience, yet it is a skill not adequately cultivated in introductory undergraduate science courses. Proficient, confident scientific writers are produced by providing specific knowledge about the writing process, combined with a clear student understanding about how to think about writing (also known as metacognition). We developed a rubric for evaluating scientific papers and assessed different methods of using the rubric in inquiry-based introductory biology classrooms. Students were either 1) given the rubric alone, 2) given the rubric, but also required to visit a biology subject tutor for paper assistance, or 3) asked to self-grade paper components using the rubric. Students who were required to use a peer tutor had more negative attitudes towards scientific writing, while students who used the rubric alone reported more confidence in their science writing skills by the conclusion of the semester. Overall, students rated the use of an example paper or grading rubric as the most effective ways of teaching scientific writing, while rating peer review as ineffective. Our paper describes a concrete, simple method of infusing scientific writing into inquiry-based science classes, and provides clear avenues to enhance communication and scientific writing skills in entry-level classes through the use of a rubric or example paper, with the goal of producing students capable of performing at a higher level in upper level neuroscience classes and independent research.
Writers in Education (National Association of Writers in Education)
New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing, Feb 12, 2013
This paper explores how elements of quantum physics might be applied to the creation of a novel. ... more This paper explores how elements of quantum physics might be applied to the creation of a novel. It offers an overview of the 'Physics Fiction' tradition. The paper considers how such elements might be used in a novel and addresses how these elements can work to support larger concerns of the text. The author provides specific examples of such applications in his own work.
Seth Clabough’s All Things Await (ISBN 978-0-9915622-7-5) is a literary, comedic debut novel abo... more Seth Clabough’s All Things Await (ISBN 978-0-9915622-7-5) is a literary, comedic debut novel about Lightly, an impossibly good-looking star quarterback from an elite Virginia college, who drags along an unlikely sidekick—the immensely unpopular and overweight Santana Montana—to a remote Costa Rican fishing village in search of a unifying vision—a secret location where he might glimpse the parallel universes predicted by quantum physics. Informed by quantum theory and driven by the desire to outrun the dark grip of a family trauma from his childhood, Lightly sets out on an impromptu picaresque adventure that is at once absurd and poignant.