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Mindy Johnson on 03 Jun 11"Science Writer is an interactive, web-based instructional learning tool designed to help students in writing a complete science report; it supports students throughout the process of writing a science report. Research has revealed several effective instructional practices in improving the written language performance of students, and Science Writer has been designed to provide these: * A breakdown of the report writing process into manageable components * Scaffolds for each step of the writing process * An organizational structure for report writing * Sentence starters to help initiate the writing"