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Article Title

In Defense of Ambiguity

Document Type

Article

Abstract

If I recall correctly, one of the first adjectives I learned as a freshman in college was ambiguous. I do not remember looking it up in any dictionary when I learned it after the first mid-term tests. It was then enough for me to learn that if a professor's test-questions were deemed "ambiguous," I could excuse my failure to answer test-questions accurately and blame the professor for having hidden from me what I should have learned and understood. In my years since, as a professor, I find that the freshmen and upper classmen and even graduate students are still sophomoric in their use of this unacademic "cop-out ".

Publication Date

March 1976

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

13

Issue

1

First Page

28

Last Page

32

Copyright

© Copyright 1976 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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