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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"scientific writing"”.
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Communication in the Sciences: Genre and Gender Differences in Scientific Writing
… of technology and its impact on society, scientific literacy is increasingly important. This study examines two major genres of scientific writing: academic journal articles and popular science magazine articles. The first aim is to improve the efficacy of writing in the sciences by …
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Demonstrating Scientific Taste: Aesthetic Judgment, Scientific Ethos, and Nineteenth-Century American Science
… dissertation explores how aesthetic claims in scientific arguments help construct scientific ethos through demonstrations of the rhetor's judgment. By examining the works of Josiah Willard Gibbs and Henry Rowland, two prominent nineteenth-century American scientists, through the lens of their …
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The assembled body: Anatomical enumeration and embodiment in Anglo-Saxon devotional texts
… confessional formulae, monastic execrations, scientific writing and diagrams produced Byrhtferth, as well as a number of Ælfric of Eynsham's vernacular homilies. This project demonstrates how Anglo-Saxon authors employed such enumerative anatomical catalogs to highlight the vibrancy of the …
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A holistic needs analysis of science doctoral students writing for publication in Algerian universities
… Purposes) needs analysis conducted on the writing challenges of non-native users of English have always focused on the language aspects only. Notwithstanding the importance of mastering the English language in scientific writing, this thesis took a holistic approach and aimed to develop a …
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The cognitive structure of cocitation clusters associated with scientific specialties
… manifestation of social order of two elite scientific communities. This project examines the cognitive order or structure of the cocitation cluster of papers representative of each group. The method reported in this paper retrieves the cognitive structures of cocitation clusters associated …
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Bodies in Vertigo: the language of liminalities
… how poetry can provide knowledge for more 'scientific' writing, such as, cultural geography or cognitive science.
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Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud
… closely to the narrative and imaginative form of scientific writing that attempts to transcend the limits of what can be seen. All three of Charles Lyell’s, Charles Darwin’s, and Sigmund Freud’s discipline-making texts (The Principles of Geology, The Origin of Species, and The Interpretation of …
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English as the International Language of Science: A Case Study of Mexican Scientists' Writing for Publication
Global dissemination of scientific findings is imperative for scientific advancement. However, the domination of English as an international language of science (EILS) has placed a potentially inequitable burden on multilingual periphery scholars attempting to disseminate their research findings in …
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Towards Agile Academia: An Approach to Scientific Paper Writing Inspired by Software Engineering
<p>The construction of scientific papers is performed in service of the greater scientific community. This iterative process is, in effect, an academic economy, where all members benefit from well-written papers. However, many published scientific papers are poorly written; they often lack …
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WASH OUT: FLUVIAL FORMS AND PROCESSES ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIERS
… a vital force in dominant U.S. environmental writing and environmental politics, even as locatable frontiers shift, turn inward, or abstract themselves. All territory is finite, and any expansionism on finite ground is inherently unsustainable. Psychological analogy suggests that latent …
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WASH OUT: FLUVIAL FORMS AND PROCESSES ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIERS
… a vital force in dominant U.S. environmental writing and environmental politics, even as locatable frontiers shift, turn inward, or abstract themselves. All territory is finite, and any expansionism on finite ground is inherently unsustainable. Psychological analogy suggests that latent …
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‘Violent Emotion’ and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel, 1847–1895
… emotion through the conventions of realist writing becoming crucial to their fictional method. By re-visiting these five canonical writers this thesis demonstrates the important role each played in the evolution of this phenomenon and its corresponding impacts on the novel form throughout …
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Use of a needs assessment tool for the development of research curriculum for postgraduate medical education trainees in King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC)
… research grants, 74% never had presentations or scientific publication). Most educators (75%) reported ongoing research projects in their departments. Most participants (trainees and educators) agreed that current strategies are not sufficient to address research training (66% and 78%), KFSH&RC …