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

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Oxford University Press, 11. apr. 2002 - 280 síður
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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Introduction
3
1 Communicative and Argumentative Development Illustrated
17
2 Style and Presentation in the 17th Century
31
3 Argument in the 17th Century
48
4 Style and Presentation in the 18th Century
68
5 Argument in the 18th Century
92
6 Style and Presentation in the 19th Century
117
7 Argument in the 19th Century
139
9 Argument in the 20th Century
187
10 Explaining the Development of the Scientific Article
214
Past Present Future
229
Method for Sampling Scientific Texts
235
Method for Analyzing Scientific Texts
243
NounPhrase Analysis
249
References
253
Index
263

8 Style and Presentation in the 20th Century
161

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