Teadustekstides

Teadustekstides is a term used in discussions of scientific writing to denote the conventional features of scientific texts. The concept describes the linguistic and discourse patterns commonly observed in scholarly articles, reports, and theses across disciplines. It is not a fixed style guide but rather a descriptive label for how scientific communication tends to be organized and phrased.

Definition and scope: Teadustekstides refers to characteristic structure and style, including formal tone, precise terminology, nominalization, explicit stance-taking, and the routine use of citations and data-centered claims. It often prescribes a conventional order—abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion—and specific norms for presenting methods and results, such as detailed procedural descriptions and quantified findings.

Key features: The voice is often impersonal or passive in some fields; there is heavy nominalization; hedging expressions are common; nouns frequently carry information; data and figures are integrated with measurements, uncertainties, and sample sizes; and there are standardized conventions for references and figures.

Applications: Researchers use the concept in corpus linguistics to compare disciplinary styles, in pedagogy to teach academic writing, and in natural language processing to develop tools for style checking, summarization, or information extraction from scientific texts.

Limitations: As a broad label, teadustekstides may obscure important cross-disciplinary variation and should be applied with awareness of field-specific norms and metadata. See also scientific writing, genre analysis, corpus linguistics, and academic style guides.