Forgotten Tribe: Scientists as Writers

by Lisa Emerson

In The Forgotten Tribe: Scientists as Writers, Lisa Emerson offers an important corrective to the view that scientists are "poor writers, unnecessarily opaque, not interested in writing, and in need of remediation." She argues that scientists are among "the most sophisticated and flexible writers in the academy, often writing for a wider range of audiences (their immediate disciplinary peers, peers in adjacent fields, a broad scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607326434
• ISBN13: 9781607326434
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Wac Clearinghouse
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up