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Technical Communication Quarterly, 2003
In this article, a biochemist and a rhetorician collaborate to define "junk science." They apply that definition as they rhetorically analyze a book that makes strong claims about endocrine disruption (Our Stolen Future) and a website developed to embarrass those claims (Our Swollen Future). This article argues that junk science and accusations of junk
Bruce Hass, Michael Kleine
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In this article, a biochemist and a rhetorician collaborate to define "junk science." They apply that definition as they rhetorically analyze a book that makes strong claims about endocrine disruption (Our Stolen Future) and a website developed to embarrass those claims (Our Swollen Future). This article argues that junk science and accusations of junk
Bruce Hass, Michael Kleine
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Rhetorical criticism and the rhetoric of science: Introduction
Southern Communication Journal, 1993Rhetoric, and the field of Communication generally, are much given to self‐reflection, a tendency lamented by some and embraced by others. Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar's essay The Idea of Rhetoric in the Rhetoric of Science, is a critique that simultaneously exposes, organizes, and evaluates the prevailing assumptions of rhetorical theory and criticism ...
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Rhetoric of Science without Constraints
Rhetorica, 1991In 1979, Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar crossed the invisible line that divided the social from the scientific, opinion from knowledge. The subtitle of Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts implicated the social in the formation of these very facts.
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College Composition and Communication, 1996
This volume marks a unique collaboration by internationally distinguished scholars in the history, rhetoric, philosophy, and sociology of science. Converging on the central issues of rhetoric of science, the essays focus on figures such as Galileo, Harvey, Darwin, von Neumann; and on issues such as the debate over cold fusion or the continental drift ...
Henry Krips, J. E. McGuire, Trevor Melia
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This volume marks a unique collaboration by internationally distinguished scholars in the history, rhetoric, philosophy, and sociology of science. Converging on the central issues of rhetoric of science, the essays focus on figures such as Galileo, Harvey, Darwin, von Neumann; and on issues such as the debate over cold fusion or the continental drift ...
Henry Krips, J. E. McGuire, Trevor Melia
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Complexity: Between Rhetoric and Science
2017The present chapter deals with some general issues of an epistemological nature concerning the notion of complexity. Such issues are examined here only informally. Moreover, there will be no impassioned stance (a few personal remarks will be confined to footnotes), but only conceptual analysis.
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1999
Abstract Rhetorical Figures in Science breaks new ground in the rhetorical study of scientific argument as the first book to demonstrate how figures of speech other than metaphor have been used to accomplish key conceptual moves in scientific texts.
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Abstract Rhetorical Figures in Science breaks new ground in the rhetorical study of scientific argument as the first book to demonstrate how figures of speech other than metaphor have been used to accomplish key conceptual moves in scientific texts.
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The Epideictic Rhetoric of Science
Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1991If science is conducted within a scientific culture, then the classical concept of epideictic rhetoric should be applicable to internal scientific discourse. A theory of epideictic rhetoric as the “rhetoric of orthodoxies” is presented, along with its five rhetorical functions: education, legitimation, demonstration, celebration, and criticism ...
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The Rhetoric of the Radical Rhetoric of Science
Rhetorica, 1991J. E. McGuire, Trevor Melia
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