Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods

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.

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