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    Types of texts in science in general

    Purpose
    Teaching

    Learning

    Performing job
    duties

    Recording lab
    work

    Professional
    exposition and
    synthesis

    Seeking research
    resources
    Informing
    citizens

    Text types
    Lecture notes and transcrips
    Textbooks and guidebooks
    Reference books (including manuals,
    handbooks, dictionaries,
    encyclopedias, atlases)
    Curricula and syllabi
    Electronic slides
    Multimedia materials
    Web-based information packs
    Other pedagogical materials
    Essays
    Research reports
    Dissertations
    Other types of assignments
    Job applications
    On-the-job notes and records
    (including electronic)
    Communications (emails, letters,
    memoranda, meeting minutes)
    Activity progress reports
    Guidelines and procedures
    Codes of conduct
    Lab notes
    Lab records
    Lab reports
    (including electronic)

    Intended readers
    Students
    Teachers

    Linguistic style
    Moderately to highly
    formal
    Jargon usually explained

    Teachers
    Students

    Moderately to highly
    formal
    Jargon typically present

    Colleagues
    Administrators
    Supervisors
    Collaborators

    From informal to highly


    formal
    Low to heavy use of
    jargon
    Abbreviations
    Acronyms
    Shorthand

    The author
    him/herself
    Coworkers
    Supervisors
    Collaborators

    Scholarly articles (experimental,


    review, theoretical, methodological,
    case study)
    Scholarly books
    Abstracts
    Notes and visual media for conference
    papers and seminars
    Letters and emails
    Grant proposals to funding agencies
    such as governmental, corporate,
    philanthropic
    Newspaper articles
    Magazine articles
    Public books (includes explanations,
    personal arguments, histories,
    biographies and autobiographies)
    Web-based materials
    Press releases
    Newsletters
    Pamphlets
    Brochures
    Creative texts
    Expert testimony and other consulting
    documents

    Researchers in the
    same field or in
    related fields

    From informal to highly


    formal
    Lab jargon
    Abbreviations
    Acronyms
    Shorthand
    Heavy use of jargon
    Highly formal

    (Adapted from Goldbort, 2006, Writing for Science)

    Granting agency
    officials, peer
    reviewers
    General public
    and special
    interest groups

    Highly formal
    Moderate to heavy use of
    jargon
    Formality and jargon low
    to moderate

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