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The Rhetoric of Risk
Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments
Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series
The crash of an Amtrak train near Baltimore, the collapse of the Hyatt hotel in Kansas City, the incident at Three Mile Island, and other large-scale technological disasters have provided powerful examples of the ways that communication practices influence the events and decisions that precipitate...
Published October 31st 2002 by Routledge
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An African Athens
Rhetoric and the Shaping of Democracy in South Africa
Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series
An African Athens offers an analysis of a new ecology of rhetoric--the reshaping of a nation into a democracy through rhetorical means. Author Philippe-Joseph Salazar provides a general view of issues as they have taken shape in the apartheid and post-apartheid South African experience, presenting...
Published March 14th 2002 by Routledge
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An African Athens
Rhetoric and the Shaping of Democracy in South Africa
Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series
An African Athens offers an analysis of a new ecology of rhetoric--the reshaping of a nation into a democracy through rhetorical means. Author Philippe-Joseph Salazar provides a general view of issues as they have taken shape in the apartheid and post-apartheid South African experience, presenting...
Published January 31st 2002 by Routledge
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Interacting With Audiences
Social Influences on the Production of Scientific Writing
Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series
This distinctive monograph examines the dynamic rhetorical processes by which scientists shape, negotiate, and position their work within an interdisciplinary community. Author Ann M. Blakeslee studies the everyday rhetorical practices of a group of condensed matter theoretical physicists, and...
Published September 30th 2000 by Routledge
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Learning to Rival
A Literate Practice for Intercultural Inquiry
Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series
Learning to Rival tells the inside story of college and high school writers learning to "rival"--to actively seek rival hypotheses and negotiate alternative perspectives on charged questions. It shows how this interdisciplinary literate practice alters with the context of use and how, in learning...
Published May 12th 2000 by Routledge
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Learning to Rival
A Literate Practice for Intercultural Inquiry
Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series
Learning to Rival tells the inside story of college and high school writers learning to "rival"--to actively seek rival hypotheses and negotiate alternative perspectives on charged questions. It shows how this interdisciplinary literate practice alters with the context of use and how, in learning...
Published March 31st 2000 by Routledge
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Worlds Apart
Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts
Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series
Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts offers a unique examination of writing as it is applied and used in academic and workplace settings. Based on a 7-year multi-site comparative study of writing in different university courses and matched workplaces, this volume...
Published May 12th 1999 by Routledge
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Worlds Apart
Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts
Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series
Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts offers a unique examination of writing as it is applied and used in academic and workplace settings. Based on a 7-year multi-site comparative study of writing in different university courses and matched workplaces, this volume...
Published March 31st 1999 by Routledge
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Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975
Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series
Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context represents the intersection of knowledge and method, examined from the perspective of three distinct disciplines: linguistics, rhetoric-composition, and history. Herein, Dwight Atkinson describes the written language and rhetoric of the Royal Society...
Published December 12th 1998 by Routledge
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Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975
Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series
Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context represents the intersection of knowledge and method, examined from the perspective of three distinct disciplines: linguistics, rhetoric-composition, and history. Herein, Dwight Atkinson describes the written language and rhetoric of the Royal Society...
Published October 31st 1998 by Routledge
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