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Shaping written knowledge:

the genre and activity of the experimental article in science
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University of Wisconsin Press, 1988 - Literary Criticism - 356 pages

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Yes, Virginia, there is a scientific way of writing, but it's a way of writing within each scientist individually and the community at large. I love telling the scientists (and, better, engineers ... Read full review

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Contents

Three Examples
18
PART TWO THE EMERGENCE OF LITERARY AND SOCIAL FORMS
57
Newton Faces
80
Copyright

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TitleShaping written knowledge: the genre and activity of the experimental article in science
Rhetoric of the human sciences
AuthorCharles Bazerman
PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1988
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized5 Aug 2009
ISBN0299116905, 9780299116903
Length356 pages
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Literary Criticism / General
Technology & Engineering / Technical Writing
  
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