Written Communication Jul 1985

The Social Construction of Two Biologists' Proposals

GREG MYERS

Abstract

Case studies of two proposals for research funding serve as examples of how scientific texts are the products of a community of researchers. Comparisons of successive versions of the proposals show that the two biologists, in revisions of their texts, alter their personae and their relations to the literature of their fields. In writing and rewriting, they both respond to and develop a disciplinary consensus.

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Written Communication
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1985-07-01
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10.1177/0741088385002003001
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