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Communicating Science Alan G. Gross (Professor of Rhetoric, Professor of Rhetoric, University of Minnesota)

Communicating Science By Alan G. Gross (Professor of Rhetoric, Professor of Rhetoric, University of Minnesota)

Summary

This book describes the development of the scientific article from its modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become today. The authors focus on changes in the style, organization, and argumentative structure of scientific communication over time. This outstanding resource is the definitive study on the rhetoric of science.

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Communicating Science Summary

Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present by Alan G. Gross (Professor of Rhetoric, Professor of Rhetoric, University of Minnesota)

This book describes the development of the scientific article from its modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become today. Their analysis of a large sample of texts in French, English, and German focuses on the changes in the style, oganization, and argumentative structure of scientific communication over time. They also speculate on the future currency of the scientific article, as it enters the era of the World Wide Web. This book is an outstanding resource text in the rhetoric of science, and will stand as the definitive study on the topic.

Communicating Science Reviews

The book succeeds in meticulously unpacking the argumentative strategies that have evolved over the centuries in attempts to express an increasingly complex set of knowledge claims, the statements science makes about reality. * Communication *

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CIN0195134540VG
9780195134544
0195134540
Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present by Alan G. Gross (Professor of Rhetoric, Professor of Rhetoric, University of Minnesota)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press Inc
20020425
280
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