The Scientific writing of "High-Tech Stress"

Scientific writing is conducted much like academic writing, but has a very specific set up and relies on certain scientic principles.  Looking back on the readings of the semester it is easy to notice many pieces that contain scientific writing principles.  These pieces include Jeremy Rifkin's "High-Tech Stress", which is an obvious example as well as the "Scientific Management and Fordism" reading.

An easy way to identify a scientific piece of writing is that much like academic writing you must identify a thesis for the writing.  This is especially true when it comes to the social sciences.  Often the natural sciences do not focus on identifying a thesis as much as the social sciences do.  The social sciences also take looks at other pieces of literatue that speak on the topic at hand.  You notice in "Scientific Management and Fordism" that they look back to the way things once were before the "Fordist" way of thinking was presented.  This way of writing is used so that the reader can know what the writers opinions agree and disagree with.

Another intrical part of the writing is using statistics or survery information to give the reader facts.  In Rifkin's "High-Tech Stress" he talks about the specific number of people who are experiencing stress in the job force.  Rifkin cites exact numbers from job forces and the number of people who experienced health problems from the stress of work.