The biology department

Writing Your writing should be in full sentences and easily understood. It should conform to the conventions of standard written English (sentence form, grammar, spelling, etc.). Good writing is as important in science as it is in other disciplines because one's ideas have little impact, no matter how important they may be, if they are not well communicated. While style is mostly an individual characteristic, everyone should strive for presentations that are easily understandable as well as grammatically correct. One reason for emphasizing clarity is that writing and thinking are closely related; as many people have said, "fuzzy writing reflects fuzzy thinking." When people have difficulty translating their ideas into words, they generally do not know the material as well as they think.