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Shaping Written Knowledge

 
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In Shaping Written Knowledge, Charles Bazerman traces the history and character of the experimental article in science, calling attention to the social and rhetorical forces that shaped its development. Truly a landmark in writing studies, this book provides a broadly interdisciplinary exploration of an important genre and offers insights that extend far beyond its immediate focus of study.

Part One: Writing Matters
  • Chapter 1: The Problem of Writing Knowledge(85K)
  • Chapter 2: What Written Knowledge Does: Three Examples of Academic Discourse(536K)

    Part Two: The Emergence of Literary and Social Forms in Early Modern Science
  • Chapter 3: Reporting the Experiment: The Changing Account of Scientific Doings in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1665-1800(97K)
  • Chapter 4: Between Books and Articles: Newton Faces Controversy(238K)
  • Chapter 5: Literate Acts and the Emergent Social Structure of Science(120K)

    Part Three: Typified Activities in Twentieth-Century Physics
  • Chapter 6: Theoretical Integration in Experimental Reports in Twentieth-Century Physics: Spectroscopic Articles inPhysical Review, 1893-1980(192K)
  • Chapter 7: Making References: Empirical Contexts, Choices, and Constraints in the Literary Creation of the Compton Effect(363K)
  • Chapter 8: Physicists Reading Physics: Schema-Laden Purposes and Purpose-Laden Schema(97K)

    Part Four: The Reinterpretation of Forms in the Social Sciences
  • Chapter 9: Codifying the Social Scientific Style: The APA Publication Manual as a Behaviorist Rhetoric(103K)
  • Chapter 10: Strains and Strategies in Writing a Science of Politics: The Unsettled Rhetoric of the American Political Science Review, 1979(53K)

    Part Five: Scientific Writing as a Social Practice
  • Chapter 11: How Language Realizes the Work of Science: Science as a Naturally Situated, Social Semiotic System(127K)
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