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A Dialogic Account of Sense-Making in Scientific Argumentation and Reasoning
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Ford, Michael J. – Cognition and Instruction, 2012
This article identifies aspects of argumentation in scientific practice that are key for scientific sense-making and articulates how engagement in these aspects happens both inter-mentally (between people) and intra-mentally (an individual's reasoning). Institutionally, peer review exerts critique on new knowledge claims in science and is…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Logical Thinking, Criticism, Physics