Writing in the Sciences : Exploring Conventions of Scientific Discourse (Part of the Allyn and Bacon Series in Technical Communication) Paperback - 2003 - 2nd Edition
by Steven B. Katz; Ann M. Penrose
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- Title Writing in the Sciences : Exploring Conventions of Scientific Discourse (Part of the Allyn and Bacon Series in Technical Communication)
- Author Steven B. Katz; Ann M. Penrose
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 2nd
- Edition 2
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Longman Publishing, White Plains, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0321112040I4N00
- ISBN 9780321112040 / 0321112040
- Library of Congress subjects Technical writing
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003021559
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.066
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This rhetorical, multi-disciplinary guide discusses the major genres of science writing including research reports, grant proposals, conference presentations, and a variety of forms of public communication. "Writing in the Sciences" combines a descriptive approach helping students to recognize distinctive features of common genres in their fields with a rhetorical focus helping them to analyze how, why, and for whom texts are created by scientists. Multiple samples from real research cases illustrate a range of scientific disciplines and audiences for scientific research along with the corresponding differences in focus, arrangement, style, and other rhetorical dimensions. Comparisons among disciplines provide the opportunity for students to identify common conventions in science and investigate variation across fields.