This chapter offers a broad sketch of the emergence of rhetoric of science (RS) as a field of
study focused on the persuasive role of language choices within specialized scientific …

Rhetoric of science is the study of how scientists persuade and dissuade each other and the
rest of us about nature--the study of how scientists argue in the making of knowledge. In …

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 …

Until recently, the notion of a “rhetoric of science” may have sounded oxymoronic.*
Traditional conceptions of science as the embodiment of disinterested, objective knowledge …

In 1976, Philip Wander published an article in WJC with the title “The Rhetoric of Science.”
Pointing out that “the rhetorical critic has been slow to treat this topic” because of “the …

Inspired by the Weltanschauungen opposition to positivist philosophy of science and the
current interest in the relation of rhetoric and knowledge, some writers in rhetorical theory …

A review of work being published in our journals establishes that we most often think of
ourselves as passive intellectuals, engaged in critical reflection about rhetorics of science …

Rhetorical scholars have become increasingly interested in the persuasive tactics and
strategies that arise out of the communication that occurs in the course of doing science. 1 …

Commentary: When this essay first appeared more than 10 years ago, it built on a small but
substantial body of scholarship that declared scientific writing an appropriate field for …

Growing attention to a rift between epistemology and ontology, between words and things,
sets new challenges and invigorations for a Rhetoric of Science that traditionally aims to …