… Biology offers a detailed analysis of texts, with a strong focus on social construction of
knowledge and the rhetorical contexts in which scientists construct their texts. As Myers notes, "…

… status that the scientific community will assign to the text's knowledge claim. This study
locates some textual features of this negotiation by considering two articles by two biologists, the …

… He rightly contends that this neglect is undeserved: "the writing of proposals, which takes
up … to the development of scientific knowledge" (42). In other words, in biological research, …

… What is radical science? Put too simply I am sure, it is the acceptarice that all science is
socially constructed, and more narrowly, politically constructed. Because politics cannot be …

… , emphasises the controversial aspects of his research. Successive drafts by Crews and
Bloch also form the subject matter of Chapter 3 (’Social construction in two biologists’ articles’), …

… Lest it seem that the written history has been a total wasteland, it should be noted that some
… In a recent study of the sources of physical reductionism in mid-nineteenth century biology, I …

… of is Greg Myers's, "The Social Construction of Two Biologists' Proposals." This essay …
scientific knowledge through gradually negotiated changes in the language of what scientists write. …

… in which biological, psychological, and social scientific studies … be included in sociologists'
texts are there not because of their … almost all those writing the newer social studies of science …

… the ways academic knowledge is socially constructed, focusing on … this tells us about writers’
ideas of appropriate writer-reader … Although we lack knowledge about a denitive biological …

… scientific knowledge is created and modified through social … theoretical constructions of
the social structure of science in … the biological text subordinates its representation of writer, …