Understanding Scientific Prose
- ISBN-10
- 029913900X
- ISBN-13
- 9780299139001
- Category
- Science (General)
- Pages
- 388
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Author
- Jack Selzer
Description
Studies one scientific essay - The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme, by evolutionary theorists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin - as an example, to demonstrate and test new analytical approaches to scientific rhetoric.
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