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Author:   James H. Collier ,  James H. Collier
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.850kg
ISBN:  

9780761903208

ISBN 10:   0761903208
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   03 December 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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PART ONE: THE RHETORIC Scientific and Technical Communication in Context Reading Scientific and Technical Texts Writing Scientific and Technical Texts Understanding Audiences Language, Persuasion, and Argument Participation and Policy PART TWO: THE READER Putting People Back into the Business of Science - Steve Fuller Constituting a National Forum for Setting the Research Agenda Textual Technologies - Geoff Cooper New Literary Forms and Reflexivity Science and Communication - William Keith Beyond Form and Content Migrating across Disciplinary Boundaries - Dale L Sullivan The Case of David Raup′s and John Sepkoski′s Periodicity Papers Challenging High-Tech War - Sujatha Raman Surgical Strike or Collateral Damage? Restructuring Demand for Scientific Expertise - Sheila Tobias, Daryl Chubin and Kevin Aylesworth

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James H. Collier is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. He is the Series Founder and Editor of “Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society” published by Rowman and Littlefield International; the Founder and Editor of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (SERRC; https://social-epistemology.com/); and the Founder and Editor of the “Project for Reimagining Inquiry” as part of the journal Social Epistemology. He served as Executive Editor of Social Epistemology from 2009 to 2018. In 2015, he edited The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision in launching the Rowman & Littlefield book series. An extended essay “Social Epistemology for the One and the Many” (2018) for the SERRC examines fault lines in approaches to critical social epistemology.

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