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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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, 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 Read more...
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