Assessment criteria are increasingly incorporated into teaching, making it important to clarify
the pedagogic status of the qualities to which they refer. We reviewed theory and evidence …

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 …

Rhetoric of science is the study of how scientists persuade and dissuade each other and the
rest of us about nature--the study of how scientists argue in the making of knowledge. In …

Metaphors are more popular than ever in the study of scientific reasoning and culture
because of their innovative and generative powers. It is assumed, that novel scientific …

Systemic change has become a floating signifier for any broad-scale change that an author
wishes to suggest is current and worthy of federal funding consideration. For whatever …

This article claims that two social values in science—falsifiability of science and cooperation
among scientists—determine use of passives in scientific communication. Scientists do not …

Computer-based readability measures were used to examine the clarity of texts written in the
sciences, the social sciences, and the arts and humanities. Five studies examined texts that …

This article examines the frequency and discourse functions of 752 active transitive clauses
in a 66,500-word corpus of sixteen research articles in the physical sciences. The overall …

In looking back at the last review of research on the language-science connection to appear
in ARAL (van Naerssen and Kaplan 1987), one is struck by the great changes in this …

Not only have historical studies of technical communication increased in quantity and quality
over the last 15 years, but they have also entered the mainstream of technical …