Science writing, for example, comes in many forms. Herschbach requires students in his introductory chemistry course to compose poems on major themes, such as entropy and equilibrium. Crafting a poem, he asserts, is much more like doing science than the typical homework assigned in the introductory course. Next week, Herschbach hopes to dispel the myth that scientists don't, or don't need to, write. But that, of course, is wrong.
Writing is tremendously important.