Example of Scientific Narration
Science / / July 04, 2021
For a scientific narrative to occur, it must be composed of certain elements:
Purpose.- This helps us to understand the world of nature and human beings, with respect to the natural environment, here the stories that arise, cause the reader can invent new things that are generated in his imagination, such as certain images and concepts that are strictly scientific and environmental. material.
Events (edit).- Here it is represented how history is related by a series of events.
Structure.- In the way that the stages through which the scientific narrative goes through are identified, which has a beginning, a development and therefore an end.
Weather.- A narrative as such, this will lead to events of the past, which occurred a few days ago to thousands of years ago.
And of course the presence of a narrator, who is the person who will be recounting the scientific event step by step, and of a reader interested in knowing the reasons.
Scientific storytelling example:
Penicillin, The Nobel Conference, December 11, 1945:
"I'm going to say about the early days of penicillin, because this is the part of the penicillin story that made me win a Nobel Prize... The origin of penicillin was contamination of a staphylococcal culture plate in a mold.
It was observed that at some distance around the mold colony the staphylococcal colonies had turned and It seemed that the research demand, so the mold was isolated in pure culture and some of its properties were determined... The mold was found to belong to the genus Penicillium. After having obtained the mold in pure culture he planted it in another culture plate and after having grown at room temperature for 4 or 5 days I have scratched different microbes radially across the license plate. Some of them grew to the mold - others were inhibited by a distance of several centimeters. This showed that the mold produces an antibacterial substance that affected some microbes and others did not… ”
(Alexander Fleming, 1945)