Taking It to the Streets: The Rhetorical Mobility of Expert Arguments in Public Settings

Paliewicz, Nicholas S.

doi:10.1080/00028533.2014.11821838

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“…This picture overlay offers an avenue for public engagement, where, as T. B. Farrell and Goodnight (1981) offer, public expertise can empower the public to challenge a priori decisions made on their behalf thereby creating “new spaces for engagement” (cited in Paliewicz, 2014, p. 45). Under this theme of attention, the artifacts convert policy discussions of water use to everyday acts that the public can identify with.…”

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“…In combination, they allow the “body to … agree with the thought … and eyes to indicate the feelings of the mind” (Cicero, De Oratore). As Paliewicz (2014) shows, visual in environment-related communication encapsulate the problem and suggested solution (p. 45). They must therefore be carefully designed lest they “reify diagrams of power that may exclude marginalized groups from public participation” (p. 46).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Their research helped us understand how communicators engage with the public to affect their perception of risk and how it can be mitigated through their actions in everyday practice. This expansive reading of the role of rhetoric as not just finding the available means of persuasion but “negotiating the substance of discourse” (Waddell, 1995, p. 208) fits within the realm of what Paliewicz (2014) has labeled “public expertise” (p. 45) whereby public experts bring together expert and local knowledge of “participants in environmentally affected communities” (p. 45). Ultimately, rhetorical strategies that capitalize on commonplaces are reflective of the culture in question along with their shared practices and norms, making risk communication possible.…”

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confidence: 96%

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Rhetoric and Cape Town’s Campaign to Defeat Day Zero

Walwema

2020

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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This article examines a targeted drought awareness campaign by the city of Cape Town in South Africa to prevent a looming water crisis dubbed Day Zero. Using rhetorical criticism and commonplaces, the article analyzes the design and (rhetorical)circulation of artifacts that heightened public awareness of the crisis, helped shape the public mindset, and galvanized collective action to prevent Day Zero. For one city in Africa to avert a water crisis through a rhetorically orchestrated set of technological, scientific, and civic interventions is significant for (among others) technical communicators who need to know not simply that it was done, but how rhetoric helped avert Day Zero.

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Rhetoric and Cape Town’s Campaign to Defeat Day Zero

Walwema

2020

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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“…Expert discourses are texts, ideas, images, symbols, and/or bodies that originate from institutions, groups, individuals, and/or fi elds of study that claim to have expertise about a public issue. Expertise can serve as a rhetorical force that helps inform the broader public, including lay audiences, about the technical aspects of social issues (Paliewicz, 2014). Lay discourses are texts, ideas, images, symbols, and/or bodies that circulate among lay audiences in society.…”

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Designing public communication about doulas

Kuehl

Anderson

2015

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Expectant parents use health communication messaging to make decisions about their childbirth plans. Recently, women have increasingly chosen to use doulas, or people who provide nonmedical support during childbirth. This essay analyzes how a hospital designed public communication through promotional efforts regarding their no-cost, volunteer doula program. We use rhetorical analysis to analyze 19 promotional texts. By analyzing these materials through the rhetorical method of presence and absence, we found that the health discourse related to the doula program gave presence to expectant mothers. Additionally, the benefi ts of doulas, especially in relation to fathers or partners, remained absent in promoting the volunteer doula program. Through specifi c communication design recommendations, we focus on how to improve this communication to increase the use of doulas in our community, and in other communities. We conclude with implications and limitations of the study. Context of a Community Hospital's Volunteer Doula ProgramIn fall 2011, the local hospital created the volunteer doula program in response to focus groups of community women who requested this service. It was the fi rst free labor and delivery doula program in the state and the fi rst free post-partum doula program in the United States. This study to evaluate the program was approved through the South Dakota State University institutional review board, IRB-1303003-EXM.This case study is part of a collaboration between our interdisciplinary research team and our community's local hospital. In this way, the project took a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach and blended multiple methodologies, including rhetorical

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