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Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present

By Alan G. Gross , Joseph E. Harmon , Michael S. Reidy

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0195134540, 9780195134544
Open Library ID
OL7389108M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1441008 bytes)
Pages
280\280
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book describes the development of the scientific article from its modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become today. Their analysis of a large sample of texts in French, English, and German focuses on the changes in the style, organization, and argumentative structure of scientific communication over time. They also speculate on the future currency of the scientific article, as it enters the era of the World Wide Web. This book is an outstanding resource text in the rhetoric of science, and will stand as the definitive study on the topic.

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