SCIENTIFIC TEXT

SCIENCE IS ORGANIZED KNOWLEDGE AND

THE EFFORT TO DISCOVER AND INCREASE
H U M A N U N D E R S TA N D I N G O F H O W T H E
PHYSICAL WORLD WORKS.

A WA Y O F L E A R N I N G A B O U T T H E N A T U R A L
W O R L D T H R O U G H O B S E R VA T I O N A N D
LOGICAL REASONING.
What is a scientific text

A scientific text is an article written specifically to explain or explore a scientific idea.

(Most text that students will encounter in their studies is either narrative or expository)
Scientific texts can be found in:
Reference books Biographies
Newspaper articles Magazine articles
Websites and blogs Lab Reports
Instruction Manual Science Fiction
There are 5 main sections to any technical paper.
1. The Introduction
2. Materials
3. Methods
4. Results
5. Conclusion
Features of scientific text
• Frequent use of long descriptive sentences with many clauses.
• Long complex noun phrases.
• High incidence of content specific technical vocabulary
• Many words have specific Greek and Latin roots and affixes from which word
meaning can be derived. eg:- the word science has come from the latin word
Scientia which means ‘to know’.
• Use of symbols, numbers and terms that are recognized internationally.
 Broad Information Categories
Qualitative Information
It refers to content that is
often used to describe the
results obtained in a
scientific study. Descriptive
text is often used to
summarize the data that has
been garnered.
Quantitative
Information Inferential Information
It refers to data that is Use of statistical techniques
expressible in terms of to make judgements about
quantity-how much, how the data that was obtained.
long, what percentage etc.
It is important to know how to analyze and write a scientific text.

Analyzing a scientific text Writing a scientific text

Annotation-to get a general Using your sources
overview. Questioning your sources
Analysis of methods Support everything with evidence
Analysis of results
 Summary

 Scientific and technical content is most often presented in a way to

convey information rather than to tell a story.
 They are enormously present in textbooks, magazines because the
influence of science and technology in our world makes it important
that students learn and better comprehend scientific content.
 Scientific texts include qualitative, quantitative as well as inferential
information.
 So we must know how to understand and analyze these technical
papers.
Presented by:-

Shreya (18103087)
Rippendeep Kaur (18103078)
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