Following instructions

One of the key skills that a scientist needs is the ability to write accurate, unambiguous instructions.

I gave one of my classes an exercise to improve their instruction writing skills. Each person got a card with a symbol on it and had to create a set of instructions for a partner to follow so that they could recreate the symbol.

Some were more successful than others:

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