scientific writing

[Thomas Bloor]

Huge field. You might  add:

passive:
Swales, John  1981 'Two participles in ???'. In Selinker L, Tarone E &
Hanzeli V (eds) _English for Academic and Technical Purposes: Studies in
Honor of Louis Trimble_ Newbury House

Tarone E, Dwyer S, Gillette S & Icke V 1981  'On the use of the passive in
two astrophysics journal papers'. In Swales J (ed) _Episodes in ESP_
London: Pergamon

general:

Bazerman, Charles 1988 _Shaping Written Knowledge: Essays in the Growth,
Form Function and Implications of the Scientific Article_ Madison: U of
Wisconsin Press

Halliday M A K & Martin J R 1993 _Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive
Power_ London/Washington: Falmer Press

Myers, Greg 1990 _Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of
Scientific Knowledge_ Madison: U of Wisconsin Press

see _English for Specific Purposes_ journal



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