Barry's Rhetorical Strategies To Characterize Scientific Research

Barry presents rhetorical strategies as a means to characterize scientific research. He thinks that being a “scientist requires not only intelligence and curiosity, but passion, patience, creativity, self-sufficiency, and courage.” Scientific research can be courageous and dangerous. In science, people tend to doubt scientists because their discoveries it seems unreal. Even scientists such as Einstein probably doubted his own theory until his predictions were tested.
Barry starts his piece of writing by stating that having plenty of courage and strength can lead to a high creative level. Scientists need to have more certainty within themselves because “uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right