Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive Power

by M.A.K. Halliday and J.R. Martin

Book Overview

This volume focuses on the use of language and literacy issues in scientific research and in science classrooms. Working within the theoretical framework of systemic functional analysis, the book explores the evolution of scientific discourse in the English-speaking world, and the apprenticeship of students into the discourse in secondary schools.

The distinguished linguist M.A.K. Halliday and his colleague, J.R. Martin, show scientific discourses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822961032
• ISBN13: 9780822961031
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"