Scientific Writing strategies
Types of Evidence
Famous Scientists & Mathematicians
100

This is another form of "say why is matters", as put in They Say I Say.

What is "So What/Who Cares"?

100

This type of visual evidence is most commonly used in the form of pictures or graphs.

What are images?

100

This German founded the theories of General and Special Relativity.

Who is Albert Einstein?

200

To "Make your own" form of this structured set of claims and/or reasons is a necessity of any essay.

What is an argument?

200

These "questions" asked in experiments are the backbone of the scientific method.

What are hypotheses?

200

This famous 17th Century scientist names the SI Unit for force, along with a delightful fig snack.

Who is Sir Isaac Newton?

300

In a scientific essay, you will typically both"start with" and "explain" this broad form of scientific evidence.

What is data?

300

Scientific evidence can be divided into two categories: experimental, and this other "seen" type.

What is observational evidence?

300

This ancient Greek mathematician names the equation most commonly used to discover side lengths of a right triangle. (a2+b2=c2)

Who is Pythagorus?
400

Unlike another strategy, this form of procedure is only ever "explained", and not "started with".

What is the method?

400

The quantification of attributes of an object or phenomena, usually evaluated with special tools or machines (e.g., ruler, stopwatch, scale, etc.)

What are measurements?

400

This most famous female physicist and chemist won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of Polonium and Radium, posthumously naming an element on the periodic table

Who is Marie Curie?

500

"Anticipating" these courtroom staples typically involves adressing two perspectives of an argument.

What are objections?

500

This is the singular form of the plural word data.

What is a datum?

500

This French mathematician and thinker names the commonly used x-y plane, and coined his phrase Cogito, Ergo Sum. (I think, therefore I am)

Who is René Descartes?

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