Narrative and literary style as determining precepts in scientific dissemination

Abstract

Science is a social fact and as such it relies on appropriate means of communication to disseminate and validate knowledge, especially when at the dawn of the second decade of the 21st century, the Information and Communication Society (SIC), the Knowledge Society (SC) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), reach a remarkable development in the historical trajectory of humanity. This supposes that it is necessary to know and adequately handle the literary genres and modalities commonly used to write about science; however, reality shows the opposite. The present essayistic passage is inscribed within a paradigmatic interpretive vision, for which reason it uses documentary research and the praxis of the author with experience in the edition of scientific and literary magazines, to guide its purposes, which seek to inquire about the Venezuelan scientific production and the situation in which universities find themselves as centers of said production; in turn, explores the ontological relationship between science, language and style. The concluding argument proposes raising the hierarchy of scientific writing, by strengthening linguistic awareness; in the sense that the scientific report deserves to be treated with the elegance of a literary genre that points towards an aesthetics of science.