title: Scientific Writing and Communication: Papers, Proposals, and Presentations
author:  Angelika H. Hofmann 
description: Angie Hofmann has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the University of California, Irvine. While working as a postdoctoral fellow, Angie Hofmann started editing papers. Since then, she has served as an editor on numerous publications. After her postdoctoral time, she started her career as a freelance editor and adjunct instructor. For the past eight years she has been an adjunct instructor at various universities and institutes worldwide, such as the Max-Planck-Institute (Germany), the Fritz-Haber Institute (Germany), Humboldt University (Germany), University of Carabobo (Venezuela), University of Massachusetts, and Yale University. She wrote the manual on "Scientific Writing" for biological and biomedical scientists as a teaching and reference guide.
zlib_text: Jacques Derrida (1967) 
  Of Grammatology 
   
  Source: Of Grammatology, publ. John Hopkins University Press., 1974. Chapter 
  Two, with one section deleted. 
   
  2 Linguistics and Grammatology 
  Writing is nothing but the representation of speech; it is bizarre that one gives 
  more care to the determining of the image than to the object. - J.-J. Rousseau, 
  Fragment inédit d'un essai sur les langues. 
  The concept of writing should define the field of a science. But can it be 
  determined 
  by 
  scholars 
  outside 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  historico-metaphysical 
  predeterminations that we have just situated so clinically? What can a science of 
  writing begin to signify, if it is granted: 
  1. that the very idea of science was born in a certain epoch of writing;  
  2. that it was thought and formulated, as task, idea, project, in a language implying a 
  certain kind of structurally and axiologically determined relationship between 
  speech and writing;  
  3. that, to that extent, it was first related to the concept 