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The course “Modern Society and Science & Technology” has been offered at the Kookmin University since the first semester of 2006, as one of the subjects for general education in order to educate scientifically and technologically literate individuals having scientific reasoning. We live in knowledge-driven societies where the emerging importance of writing has received much attention. The reason is that writing is important in producing, sharing, and utilizing knowledge and information in this IT era. Futhermore, writing allows expanding and deepening their scientific reasoning. But, the deemphasis of the training in writing under the current college entrance examination system forces the Korean college students, who are internet/video-generation, unfamiliar to articulating in writing. On the other hand, the conventional writing educations have focused on subjects of art, literature, humanity, culture, and social issues. In this study, new teaching method of scientific writing, using scientific movies and documentaries as supplementary teaching materials, for the general education of science & technology has been proposed. Unlike writings of art and literature or practical writings, scholarly writings comprise abstracts, descriptive articles, and analytic accounts. The course was designed for such writings on various scientific topics. Instead of writing one's impression on the film as typically practiced in writing courses, this course encourages the students to analyze the scientific concepts and scientific reasoning, inherent in the films, and to report the results. This undoubtedly offers an opportunity for training scientific reasoning (hypothesis-deductive, deductive, and inductive thinking) as well as preventing plagiarisms caused by internet copying and downloading materials, a widespread practice among college students.