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Scientific Writing
4.1 Introduction
Scientic articles in scholarly journals, magazines, and conferences are a very
special kind of technical writing. Senior, masters, or doctoral theses also fall
into this category. These writings tend to have longer “life spans” as they are
archived in digital libraries for search and retrieval by other scholars, in per-
petuity. The archival aspect of these kinds of writings differs from the techni-
cal writings that you are likely to produce at work. Some of your work writing
will be archived by your company, customers, and perhaps your company’s
legal counsel, but such writings are not intended for pub