Rhetoric of Science

The Mundane, Power, and Symmetry: A Reading of the Field with Dorothy Winsor and the Tradition of Ethnographic Research

“…This theoretical movement was taking place more broadly within the rhetoric of science in the late 1980s and early 1990s (see Bazerman, 1988;Gross, 1990;Harris 1991;Myers, 1990;Prelli, 1989). In 1990, Winsor made this move for engineering writing.…”

What is a Rhetoric of Death? End-of-Life DecisionMaking at a Psychiatric Hospital

“…This latter rhetoric of science has had relatively little play in Canada, where science studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS) have been the province of sociologists, historians, and philosophers of science, but not, particularly, rhetoricians. Of course, there are Canadian rhetoricians who are science studies scholars (e.g., Harris, 1990Harris, , 1991Harris, , 1993, and rhetorically astute sociologists (e.g., Overington, 1977) and historians of science (e.g., Stewart, 1992). But it is interesting to consider why the genre/social action profile in Canadian rhetoric of science is relatively high.…”

La condición intertextual en las citas de los artículos de investigación de psicología

“…Este enfoque retórico ha conquistado un lugar propio frente a la filosofía de la ciencia y la historia de la ciencia, y su nicho específico de investigación se ha diferenciado del campo de la sociología de la ciencia (Harris, 1991). En el contexto de la Retórica de la ciencia, la citación ha concitado un indudable interés, ya que la referencia intertextual contribuyó decisivamente a la consolidación del sistema comunicativo de la ciencia moderna.…”