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Forgotten Tribe: Scientists as Writers

Forgotten Tribe: Scientists as Writers

Emerson, Lisa

Paperback

Writing Instruction

ISBN10: 1607326434
ISBN13: 9781607326434
Publisher: Wac Clearinghouse
Published: Mar 1 2017
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In The Forgotten Tribe: Scientists as Writers, Lisa Emerson offers an important corrective to the view that scientists are poor writers, unnecessarily opaque, not interested in writing, and in need of remediation. She argues that scientists are among the most sophisticated and flexible writers in the academy, often writing for a wider range of audiences (their immediate disciplinary peers, peers in adjacent fields, a broad scientific audience, industry, and a range of public audiences including social media) than most other faculty. Moreover, she notes, the often collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of their work results in writing practices that may be more socially complex, and require more articulation, mediation, and interpersonal communication, and more use of advanced media and technology than those of faculty in other disciplines.

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