were not necessarily produced by the A-level students but actually often by B- or C-level students”.9 In brief, poetry helped students to “learn and express chemistry in a fun and creative way”.9
Similarly, Marcum-Dietrich and colleagues10 implemented and reported positive outcomes on engaging chemistry students in creative writing. The project resulted from the cooperation between an English teacher and a science teacher. It consisted of two parts. First, students were asked to write a poem on gases according to a structured script with the topics. Then, students were asked to read one of John Updike’s poems and write an essay on the properties of a crystal or a neutrino, exclusively based on the reading of the poem. As the project proved successful, the authors not only repeated it, but also included other literary activities (e.g., a children’s book). Eventually, the experience led to changes in the chemistry curriculum as writing became a central feature in it.