Routledge, 2005. — 131 p. — (Intertext).
It covers the issues of communication in science, scientific language, technical writing. It provides teachers and students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics. It helps to analyse the goals of scientific language and terminology, the use of metaphor in science, how scientists persuade each other.
7 Units: Language. Metaphor in science. The grammar of science. Discourse and facts. Understanding the rhetorical in science. Science and culture. Science and society.