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Chemical Education Today
From Past Issues
Contests: What Is Wrong Here?
Kathryn R. Williams
University of Florida, Department of Chemistry, P.O. Box 117200, Gainesville, FL 32611-7200
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April 1999
Vol. 76 No. 4
p. 460
Abstract
"What is wrong here?" Faulty diagrams bearing this question appeared in eight consecutive issues of JCE from October 1929 through May 1930. These artistic works of John J. Condon, William Nottingham High School, Syracuse, NY, were the objects of a monthly contest for high school and beginning college students. The accompanying instructions directed entrants to submit a "brief statement telling what is wrong with the picture" and a "correct diagram, showing the picture as you think it should be." The undisclosed judge(s) evaluated entries' "correctness from a chemical standpoint, neatness and correctness of drawing, English, [and] neatness and legibility of manuscript." The best contribution, which was printed two months later, earned a $5 prize, with $1 going to each of the five runners-up.
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 Williams, Kathryn R. J. Chem. Educ. 1999 76 460.
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 Public Understanding; Humor / Puzzles; Journal Policy
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