Thinking critically about writing for the sciences

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Identify one or more features of scientific texts, and consider their usefulness. Why, for instance, does an abstract precede the actual article?...

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Choose a piece of writing you did for a natural or applied science class—a lab report, a research report, a proposal—and read it carefully. Note...