Friday, April 3, 2009

Discussion about scholarly work on writing or argument in your field

In the field of biology or science, it is important to have strong writing techniques. Scientists must persuade their readers through factual information and making effective arguments. When researching “scholarly work on writing or argument in Biology,” I came across an article that observes the writing style of two famous scientists, James Watson and Francis Crick and compares similar research work to other scientists that were not as successful in rhetoric writing. Watson and Crick became famous for their work because of useful writing styles they used when developing their research work. The writings of these scientists can influence and help other scientists with biology and other science fields. In the writing that is being compared, one of the observations made between the two papers were the amount of words. Watson and Crick were very concise with their work; they only added important and crucial information that would explain their concepts. Concision is an important writing technique in biology writing. Their work was also easy enough to read and understand for other scientists and people to use as research. Confidence in scientific writing is also important because the more confident, the more excepted the idea. Finally, and the most important technique in scientific writing is persuasion! By using certain and key words throughout your work, the more likely of persuading your readers because of the confidence the paper reflects.

Source: http://acube.org/volume_26/v26-1p23-25.pdf

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