Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods Landmark Essays Series

Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods compiles the essential readings of the vibrant field of rhetoric of science, tracing the growth and core concerns of the field since its development in the 1970s.

A companion to Randy Allen Harris?s foundational Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies, this volume includes essays by such luminaries as Carolyn R. Miller, Jeanne Fahnestock, and Alan G. Gross, along with an early prophetic article by Charles Sanders Pierce. Harris?s detailed introduction puts the field into its social and intellectual context, and frames the important contributions of each essay, which range from reimagining classical concepts like rhetorical figures and topical invention to Modal Materialism and the Neomodern hybridization of Actor Network Theory with Genre Studies. Race, revolution, and Daoism come up along the way, and the empirical recalcitrance of the moon.

This collection serves as a textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in science studies, and is an invaluable resource for researchers concerned with science not as a special, autonomous, sacrosanct enterprise, but as a set of value-saturated, profoundly influential rhetorical practices.

Part 1: Issues 1. Ideas, Stray or Stolen, About Scientific Writing, No. 1 2. The Personae of Scientific Discourse
3. The Rhetoric of Science 4. Are Scientists Rhetors in Disguise? 5. Rhetorical Criticism and the Rhetoric of Science 6. Some Cautionary Strictures on the Writing of the Rhetoric of Science 7. Rhetoric of Science Without Constraints 8. Reclaiming Rhetoric of Science and Technology: Knowing In and About the World 9. The Productivity of Scientific Rhetoric 10.When We Can’t Wait on Truth: The Nature of Rhetoric in The Rhetoric of Science Part 2: Methods 11. Rhetoric, Topoi, and Scientific Revolutions 12. Kairos in the Rhetoric of Science 13. Figures of Argument 14.Switch-Side Debating Meets Demand-Driven Rhetoric of Science 15. Uncertainty, Spheres of Argument, and the Transgressive Ethos of the Science Adviser 16. The 1923 Scientistic Campaign and Dao-Discourse: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Rhetoric of Science 17. Race and Genetics from a Modal Materialist Perspective 18. Socioscientific Controversies: A Theoretical and Methodological Framework 19. Presence as a Consequence of Verbal-Visual Interaction: A Theoretical Approach 20. Networks, Genres, and Complex Wholes: Citizen Science and How We Act Together through Typified Text

Randy Allen Harris is Professor of Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Communication Design at the University of Waterloo. His other books include Rhetoric and Incommensurability and The Linguistic Wars.