Rhetoric In(to) Science: Style As Invention In Inquiry

by Heather Brodie Graves

Using ethnographic-type data, Graves (Depaul U.) explores the role of the rhetoric in scientific inquiry. Coverage includes an overview of science history and how the scientific method appropriated rhetorical invention theory during the rise of science; the role of analogy in the process of interpreting data in a scientific experiment; the nature of some scientific theories as evidenced through analysis of the metaphors on which they are constructed; an examination of the way that the trope of metonymy plays a role in how physicists have perceived the existence of their experimental data; and the implications for research in the rhetoric of science and also the teaching of writing in composition and in technical and scientific writing. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

284 pages, Hardcover

First published August 28, 2004