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Richardson, Ian M. – System, 1990
A possible syllabus for English for Science and Technology is suggested based upon a set of causal relations, arising from a logical description of the presuppositional rhetoric of scientific passages that underlie most semantic functions. An empirical study is reported of the semantic functions present in 52 randomly selected passages.…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, English for Science and Technology, Language Research, Rhetoric