The appliance of science: The challenges of undergraduate science students writing popular science (original) (raw)

2018

Abstract

Popular science writing is rarely referred to in the literature yet could be used as a writing task for undergraduate science students. Since 2013-14, a popular science article writing task has been used as the main writing task in an English-in-the-Discipline course for second year undergraduate science students from multiple scientific disciplines at a university in Hong Kong. In this course students were formally taught the genre features of popular science articles and research articles using the concept of reader-writer proximity (Hyland, 2010) in which the fixed rhetorical features are used to “construct both the reader and writer as people with similar understandings and goals” (Hyland, 2010, p. 116). Samples of students’ writing were analysed for genre features through Hyland’s concept of proximity, and individual interviews conducted with their authors. The objectives of the study were to determine (1) to what extent students can incorporate and successfully use features of...

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