CHAPTER 4 FITB

Question 1

1. Scientific communication takes place in many ways, including archival publication in scholarly journals and informal communication among groups of scientists, known as …

Answer 1

invisible colleges

Question 2

Scientific writing can be considered one form of argumentation, which is the presentation of a set of reasons in support of a …

Answer 2

thesis, or proposition.

Question 3

A scientific report requires the same attention to good writing as does any other form of written persuasion. Key concepts are … (3)

Answer 3

clarity, brevity, and felicity

Question 4

The parts of a paper are

Answer 4

(1) title, (2) authors and their affiliations, (3)

abstract, (4) introduction, (5) method, (6) results, (7) discussion, (8) references, (9) author notes, (10) footnotes, (11) tables, and (12) figures with captions

Question 5

The authors of your paper are listed in the order of

Answer 5

the importance of

their contributions

Question 6

The method section tells what you did in the experiment in such a way

that another person can … and… The method section describes the participants, materials, design, and procedure

Answer 6

evaluate the validity of the conclusions of the study and can repeat it in all essentials.