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Peer reviewedBattalio, John T. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1996
Shows the path to professionalization through four phases of ornithological discourse history, drawing upon articles in "The Auk," published from 1890-90. States that, originally a single discourse form, the personal narrative of natural history served ornithological science. Finds that a gap between science and public understanding was…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities, Ornithology
