Writing science : literacy and discursive power /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
c1993.
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| Series: | Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Discursive Technology of Science
- Chapter 1 General Orientation
- Chapter 2 The Model
- Part 1: Professional Literacy: Construing Nature
- Introduction
- Chapter 3 On the Language of Physical Science
- Chapter 4 Some Grammatical Problems in Scientific English
- Chapter 5 The Construction of Knowledge and Value in the Grammar of Scientific Discourse: Charles Darwin's The Origin of the Species
- Chapter 6 Language and the Order of Nature
- Chapter 7 The Analysis of Scientific Texts in English and Chinese
- Part 2: School Literacy: Construing Knowledge
- Introduction
- Chapter 8 The Discourse of Geography: Ordering and Explaining the Experiential World
- Chapter 9 Literacy in Science: Learning to Handle Text as Technology
- Chapter 10 Technicality and Abstraction: Language for the Creation of Specialized Texts
- Chapter 11 Life as a Noun: Arresting the Universe in Science and Humanities.