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The action of writing has been subject of several empirical and theoretical studies in the areas of linguistic, psychology and literacy. Not only writing as a cognitive process is considered to be leaning, but also it has been adopted and used as learning and scaffolding mechanism by different disciplines such as science education. Research on language and learning in the science content area has emphasized the use of writing as a powerful learning tool (Keys, 1999b). Moving away from teaching traditional scientific genres, which emphasize the need for students to learn micro and macro structures of the genres of science writing to be able to understand science, researchers have focused more on expressive and creative writing that promotes meaningful learning in science. Especially in the area of elementary science education there has been growing number of reform movements and research studies that emphasize the significance of writing as a learning tool.

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