Let Your Ideas Flow: Using Flowcharts to Convey Methods and Implications of the Results in Laboratory Exercises, Articles, Posters, and Slide Presentations

Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education 1 Volume 19, Number 1 ©2018 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode), which grants the public the nonexclusive right to copy, distribute, or display the published work. *Corresponding author. Mailing address: Kimnar Group, LLC, KMK Consulting Services, PO Box 219, Worcester, PA 19490. Phone: 610-990-7713. Fax: 610-222-0731. E-mail: kmk997@KMK-How-to-Write.com. Received: 12 September 2017, Accepted: 8 December 2017, Published: 30 March 2018. Science Communication

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