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- Title
RECENT AND RELEVANT: SCIENTIFIC WRITING.
- Authors
Southard, Sherry; Bates, Christine
- Abstract
The article presents abstracts on scientific writing. By suggesting ways in which the visual representation of sciences are construed by expert readers, this article responds to call within our discipline for more critically focused contributions to the study of visual literacy. A case study illustrates how the horse-race framing of popular accounts devalues the collective sharing, challenging and extending of scientific work. This article studies a set of scientific/technical articles published in Internet homepages. The structural analysis suggests that these kinds of texts imaginatively realize and assume the standpoint and main tenets of a lay audience that just consumes specific genres, most being analogous to the persuasive, manipulative, amusement-oriented television news stories, tabloids and commercials. An ethnographic study of scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the article describes how the rhetorical invention process of a group of working scientists is strongly rooted in social collaborative processes. Writing practices of working professionals are not always synonymous with the way students entering the professions have been taught to write.
- Subjects
TECHNICAL writing; AUTHORSHIP; VISUAL literacy; ELECTRONIC publishing; SCIENTISTS; WORK environment
- Publication
Technical Communication, 2004, Vol 51, Issue 2, p328
- ISSN
0049-3155
- Publication type
Article