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Abstract The study involving 160 pre-university students, randomly assigned into experimental (n=80), and control groups (n=80) revealed Science Writing Heuristics (SWH) approach improved pre-university students’ understanding of Energy Transfer (ET) in ecosystems and ability to produce quality arguments. The one-way ANCOVA analysis indicates that there is a significant difference between the posttest scores of the experimental group taught using SWH and the control group taught using a teacher-centered approach after controlling the pretest scores with the former outperformed the latter.  The interview findings denote that the students acquired a comprehensive understanding of ET as they provided holistic explanations describing the energy transfer. The SWH approach also enabled students to produce quality arguments. The study implies that the SWH approach is a viable strategy to facilitate teaching and learning of abstract concepts such as ET in ecosystems that fundamentally require students to argue to connect and relate compartmentalized ideas to form holistic views. 

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