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Essays in the study of scientific discourse : methods, practice, and Pedagogy
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Essays in the study of scientific discourse : methods, practice, and Pedagogy

Author: John T Battalio
Publisher: Stamford, Conn. : Ablex Pub., ©1998.
Series: ATTW contemporary studies in technical communication, v. 6.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A collection of essays studying scientific discourse. It is divided into five main sections on: rhetorical interpretations of science; a case study of a contemporary controversy in science; the  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John T Battalio
ISBN: 1567503845 9781567503845 1567503853 9781567503852
OCLC Number: 38496619
Description: xix, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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 --
Cold fusion and the sociology of scientific knowledge / Trevor Pinch --
Science as cultural practice : a rhetorical perspective / Charles Alan Taylor --
"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 --
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 --
Language of classifying in introductory science texts / Steven Darian --
Changing moorings in scientific writing : suggestions to authors, allusions for teachers / Philippa 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.
Series Title: ATTW contemporary studies in technical communication, v. 6.
Responsibility: edited by John T. Battalio.
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?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, Read more...

 
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