HW #4
In the third edition of the book “They Say I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing,” the section “Writing in the Sciences” by Christopher Gillen focuses on how scientific writing is argumentative in the way that they make, support, and criticize claims using specific structures. Scientists follow a specific format in which they create a hypothesis based on existing data, test it out with experiments and talk about its conclusion with the results obtained. According to Gillen, they use the “they say/I say formula” (pg. 203) in which they give the context of the interpretations of data that already exists and their own response to it. This way they are able to enter the “scientific conversation” (pg. 219) and actually talk about
In the third edition of the book “They Say I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing,” the section “Writing in the Sciences” by Christopher Gillen focuses on how scientific writing is argumentative in the way that they make, support, and criticize claims using specific structures. Scientists follow a specific format in which they create a hypothesis based on existing data, test it out with experiments and talk about its conclusion with the results obtained. According to Gillen, they use the “they say/I say formula” (pg. 203) in which they give the context of the interpretations of data that already exists and their own response to it. This way they are able to enter the “scientific conversation” (pg. 219) and actually talk about