Compare and Contrast Patterns of Written Texts Across Disciplines

The following are the patterns of Written Texts Across Disciplines:

1. Writer’s Purpose
2. Writing tone and style
3. Reader’s goal
4. Specific language
5. Organization
6. Discipline specific feature
Disciplines:
Science
History
 Similarities Science History

Writer’s  They both  To present  To describe

Purpose discussed scientific data. happenings in
information  To inform the past.
based on experimental  To present
the knowledge. information
accounts.  To come up and inform
valid readers.
judgements
base on the
scientific
procedures.
Writing tone and  Informative  Direct  Descriptive
style  Informative  Narrative

Reader’s goal  To gain  To read stories

 To receive science-related of the past and
information knowledge create
analysis.
Specific  Both has  Systematic  Straight
language jargons language language
 Uses jargons  Descriptive
Organization  It follows  Base on  From past to
certain Scientific present times
arrangement Procedure
such as  Inductive
either  Procedural
deductive or
inductive

Discipline  Accounts-  Purely factual  Literatures and

specific feature based based data historical
were accounts are
considered. the focused.