Abstract

GIRALDO GIRALDO, Camilo. Science, Technology and Writing. The Scientific Framing of the Written Expression. Prax. Saber [online]. 2015, vol.6, n.11, pp.67-86. ISSN 2216-0159.

A reflection on the role of writing in the development of scientific knowledge is made in order to show how science and technology fit a special writing. This descriptive study analyzed the formation of a written scientific language as a private discourse that wove its own terminology. This reflection highlights the ongoing construction of a special discourse genre in private places such as universities. A type of writing that carries a teleological distinction in contrast to other types, due to its accurate and objective requirements. Thus, the techno scientific legacy is contained mainly in a standardized writing that allows consultation and faster recoveries. The scientific articles and the research books are essential repositories of science and technology; documents like papers, reports and thesis form the so-called gray literature. The study concludes that science writing, for its specialty, specificity and purpose, is necessarily exclusive. The Science known by citizens comes through educational textbooks and scientific divulgation -mediating writings that transform technical terms to make science understandable to non-specialists.

Keywords : technical writing; dissemination of scientific knowledge; scientific literacy; scientific; science and society.

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