Ann M. Penrose
Auteur de Writing in the Sciences: Exploring Conventions of Scientific Discourse
Œuvres de Ann M. Penrose
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- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 61
- Popularité
- #274,234
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 10
This book seeks, first, to bring the field to life. It emphasizes that scientific writing is a fundamentally social venture meant to collaborate with colleagues. A writer has to persuade an audience and learn from others’ writings. To complete the introduction, the authors explore technological and ethical dimensions of writing.
Then the authors explore various conventions of writing, including reports, reviews, conference presentations, proposals, and public communication. These modes facilitate disseminating scientific findings for posterity. It’s hard to imagine a career in science without mastering these writing forms.
Finally, to transform principles into action, the authors offer historical surveys of five recent series of writings about how science has evolved in an area. These case studies offer stories, told through a collection of published writings, of how discourse has transformed over years and even decades. These stories combine different forms of writing to construct a complex tapestry, often from proposal to scholarly solution to public dissemination. Not only do they introduce this book’s readers to interesting subjects, but they also show how writing forms from different authors complement each other to shed light on a concern.
This book’s intended audience clearly consists of late undergraduates and graduate students who are developing a career as a scientist. It offers little guidance to those more inclined towards business and financial impacts, but rather focuses on those for whom writing will provide the main productive medium. Although the “publish or perish” mantra can be misleading, a scientist who does not know how to communicate is a fighter with no weapons. Writing is the only way to survive and thrive as a scientific leader, and to educate trainees, Penrose and Katz offer a thoroughly researched and carefully thought-through investigation into technical writing.… (plus d'informations)