Paragraph construction in scientific and technical research for Bachelor of Sciences students

Abstract

The research objective is the study of paragraph construction structural peculiarities in scientific and technical text in teaching students of various fields. The article analyses and reveals distinctive features of paragraph construction in scientific research. The study proves that analyses of paragraph structural features conduce to fuller distinction of stylistic originality of scientific text, its architectonics and composition. The article clarifies that in contrast to literary text, paragraph in scientific and technical text is distinguished by far greater concise and accurate structure formatting. The research proves that in the paragraph of scientific and technical text every following utterance, having close semantic relations with a preceding utterance, functions as its continuation. Having analyzed paragraph construction structural peculiarities the authors single out its main distinctive features: standardized size, unilinearity, clarity of hierarchic relations between utterances, logically strict consecutive order of its sequence, tight connection between preceding and following utterances. The study proves that in scientific and technical texts paragraphs are monolithic speech units from which bigger segments of the text are «built» (sections, chapters, etc). By building such units, clear, evident logical division of the text is achieved (speech product), necessary for more precise and objective scientific statements and facts, eloquent evidence of the propositions put forward, theories, hypotheses, etc.