Introduction, John T. Battalio
PART I. RHETORICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF SCIENCE
Uncertain Science and the Sponsored-Research Process, Gay M.
Gragson and Ted L. Gragson
Neuropsychology, Sex, and Rhetoric, Christine M. Skolnik
Plotting a Middle Ground: An Account of a Failed Science Story,
Mary Rosner
Foucault's Archaeological Method and the Discourse of Science:
Plotting Enunciative Fields, Cynthia R. Haller
PART II: A CASE STUDY OF A CONTEMPORARY CONTROVERSY IN SCIENCE
Cold Fusion and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Trevor
Pinch
Science as Cultural Practice: A Rhetorical Perspective, Charles
Alan Taylor
PART III: THE HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE
"Practicing Our Preaching": Gifford Pinchot, Conservation, and the
Scientific Rhetoric of "Demonstration Forestry", J. Harrison
Carpenter
Rationality Reborn: Historical Roots of the Passive Voice in
Scientific Discourse, Dan Ding
PART IV: THE LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE
Integrating Multiple Analyses in Historical Studies of Scientific
Discourse: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of
London, 1675-1975, Dwight Atkinson
Metaphor in the Rhetoric of Scientific Discourse, Richard D.
Johnson-Sheehan
The Language of Classifying in Introductory Science Texts, Steven
Darian
PART V: PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES TO SCIENCE WRITING
Changing Moorings in Scientific Writing: Suggestions to Authors,
Allusions for Teachers, Phillipa Jane Benson
Textual and Contextual Models of Science Writing, Ramón Plo
Alastrué and Carmen Pérez-Llantada
Practice-Centered Approaches to Literacy: Applications for the
Research and Teaching of Science Writing, Rosemary Horowitz
About the Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index.
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Continues the contemporary discussion about the origin, nature, and function of scientific discourse.
JOHN T. BATTALIO is Assistant Professor at Boise State University where he teaches in the Technical Communication Program. His recently published book, The Rhetoric of Science in the Evolution of American Ornithological Discourse (Ablex, 1998), analyzes the impact of language and rhetoric in the professionalization of science.
?[a] useful introduction to some of the major current issues in the
study of scientific discourse....valuable for graduate students and
for teachers of technical communication who are beginning or
continuing their explorations into the nature and practice of
scientific discourse.?-Technical Communication Quarterly
?The authors deomstrate a depth of scientific knowledge, and yet
discuss science in such a way that nontechnical readers, those
whose backgrounds are in the rhetorical rather than the natural,
physical, or linguistic sciences can benefit from the analyses. The
authors write clearly without oversimplifying the scientific
principles or phenomena under discussion.?-IEEE Transactions on
Professional Communication
"Ýa¨ useful introduction to some of the major current issues in the
study of scientific discourse....valuable for graduate students and
for teachers of technical communication who are beginning or
continuing their explorations into the nature and practice of
scientific discourse."-Technical Communication Quarterly
"[a] useful introduction to some of the major current issues in the
study of scientific discourse....valuable for graduate students and
for teachers of technical communication who are beginning or
continuing their explorations into the nature and practice of
scientific discourse."-Technical Communication Quarterly
"The authors deomstrate a depth of scientific knowledge, and yet
discuss science in such a way that nontechnical readers, those
whose backgrounds are in the rhetorical rather than the natural,
physical, or linguistic sciences can benefit from the analyses. The
authors write clearly without oversimplifying the scientific
principles or phenomena under discussion."-IEEE Transactions on
Professional Communication
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