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Literary Science as a Science of Argument

New Literary History, 1976
lying a literary science converges, in my view, from the most diverse angles upon a point which will be briefly explained in what follows: upon the question, that is, of what a statement, essay, or book in literary science would have to look like in order to earn the title scientific. Now as we know, there is anything but a consensus among contemporary
Siegfried J. Schmidt, Peter Heath
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Argumentation in Science Teaching

, 2014
Argumentation, including scientific argumentation, is a process of discussion and debate designed to uncover “as much information and understanding from the situation under discussion as possible.”
William F. McComas
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Enhancing the quality of argumentation in school science

open access: yesJournal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
Abstract The research reported in this study focuses on the design and evaluation of learning environments that support the teaching and learning of argumentation in a scientific context. The research took place over 2 years, between 1999 and 2001, in junior high schools in the greater London area.
J. Osborne, S. Erduran, S. Simon
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Evaluating science arguments: Evidence, uncertainty, and argument strength.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2009
Public debates about socioscientific issues are increasingly prevalent, but the public response to messages about, for example, climate change, does not always seem to match the seriousness of the problem identified by scientists. Is there anything unique about appeals based on scientific evidence-do people evaluate science and nonscience arguments ...
Adam, Corner, Ulrike, Hahn
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Argumentation in Science Education: An Overview

, 2007
Charles Darwin once described On the Origin of Species as “one long argument”. This sentence can be viewed as embodying several of the different dimensions of argumentation discussed in this book. On the one hand, it provides evidence, coming from someone with undisputable authority, on argument being an integral part of the construction of scientific ...
M. Jiménez-Aleixandre, S. Erduran
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Argumentation and Primary Science

Research in Science Education, 2006
The importance of argumentation in science education is outlined and the relatively low level of argumentation typically observed in classrooms in the UK is noted, along with possible reasons for this. The research sets out to determine the extent to which primary school pupils engage in argumentation and to characterise their arguments in primary ...
S. Naylor, B. Keogh, B. Downing
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An Argument for Arguments in Science Classes

Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
Science education has a problem. Science is deemed so important that all students must study the subject for many years and, in most states, schools are evaluated in part on their students' science achievement. Across the globe, sustaining the scientific and technological base of advanced economies is now of such concern that it has generated a ...
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