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Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are purported to support a range of learning objectives and outcomes for students. Pedagogical approaches are needed to promote these learning objectives as students engage in classroom research activities. The goal of this article is to describe a series of five writing assignments designed to contribute to the learning objectives of a CURE by introducing students to a wider variety of scientific practices, specifically analyzing data, constructing explanations, and communicating findings. Two writing assignments are data-based explanations requiring students to describe and reason about the results of laboratory experiments. Three writing assignments require students to respond within particular rhetorical contexts—a blog post, a scientific news article, and a grant preproposal. The assignments were implemented in a single semester during an …