Shaping Written Knowledge
The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science

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.

Publication Information: Bazerman, Charles. (2000). Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science. WAC Clearinghouse Landmark Publications in Writing Studies: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/ bazerman_shaping/ Originally Published in Print, 1988, by University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin.

Publication Date: November 1, 2000

Contact Information:
Charles Bazerman's Home Page: http://www.education.ucsb.edu/~bazerman
Charles Bazerman's Email: bazerman@education.ucsb.edu

Table of Contents

Open the entire book: 2,135K

Front Matter, Contents, and Acknowledgements (26K)

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)

Chapter 12: Writing Well, Scientifically and Rhetorically: Practical Consequences for Writers of Science and Their Teachers (85K)

References (92K)

Index (61K)

Landmark Publications in Writing Studies

Series Editor: David R. Russell, Iowa State University

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