Technical Communication Quarterly Apr 2012

Science as Sound Bites: The Lancet Iraq Casualty Reports and Prefigured Accommodation

Eric Leake University of Denver

Abstract

In this article I examine The Lancet Iraq casualty reports for their demonstration of prefigured accommodation, a rhetorical strategy in which the authors anticipate and attempt to influence their work's wider popularization. My reading of the reports and accompanying commentaries attends to the introduction of journalistic features and calls to political action. As part of my analysis, I interview a lead author of the reports about his rhetorical concerns in composing the work of a politically engaged science.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2012-04-01
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10.1080/10572252.2012.646132
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