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Scientific and technical communication : theory, practice, and policy / editor, James H. Collier, with David M. Toomey.

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Scientific and technical communication : theory, practice, and policy / editor, James H. Collier, with David M. Toomey.
Publication
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Collier, James H.
  • Toomey, David M.
Description
xvi, 415 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Communication in science
  • Communication of technical information
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. The reader -- Putting people back into the business of science: constituting a national forum for setting the research agenda -- Textual technologies: new literary forms and reflexivity -- Science and communication: beyond form and content -- Migrating across disciplinary boundaries: the case of David Raup's and John Sepkoski's periodicity papers -- Challenging high-tech war: surgical strike or collateral damage? -- Restructuring demand for scientific expertise -- Index.
ISBN
  • 0761903208 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 0761903216 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
^^^96025374^
OCLC
35183883
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library