From Research to Manuscript
Observations Plus Recipes It has been said that science is the orderly collection of facts about the natural world. Scientists, however, are wary of using the word afact. a aFacta has the feeling of absoluteness and universality, whereas scientific observations are neither ab- lute nor universal. For example, achildren have 20 deciduous [baby] teetha is an observation about the real world, but scientists would not call it a fact. Some children have fewer deciduous teeth, and some have more. Even those children who have exactly 20 deciduous teeth use the full set during only a part of their childhood. When they are babies and t- dlers, children have less than 20 visible teeth, and as they grow older, children begin to loose their deciduous teeth, which are then replaced by permanent teeth. aChildren have 20 deciduous [baby] teetha is not even a complete scientific sta- ment. For one thing, the statement achildren have 20 deciduous teetha does not tell us what we mean by ateeth. a When we say ateeth, a do we mean only those that can seen be with the unaided eye, or do we also include the hidden, unerupted teeth? An observation such as achildren have 20 deciduous teetha is not a fact, and, by itself, it is not acceptable as a scientific statement until its terms are explained: scientifically, achildren have 20 deciduous teetha must be accompanied by definitions and qualifiers.Writing. a. Scientific. Research. Paper. Science is the orderly collection of scientific recordsai.e., observations about the natural world made via well- defined proceduresaand scientific records are archived in a standardized form, the scientificanbsp;...
| Title | : | From Research to Manuscript |
| Author | : | Michael Jay Katz |
| Publisher | : | Springer Science & Business Media - 2009-01-21 |
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