Technical Communication Quarterly Jul 2005

Reception Studies in the Rhetoric of Science

Randy Allen Harris

Abstract

This article encourages the increased attention to issues of reception in rhetoric of science, according with the sentiment but not the argument of Paul, Charney, and Kendall's "Moving beyond the Moment." In particular, it offers two works as exemplary of the disciplinary maturity that has occasioned this focus on reception, Ceccarelli's monograph, Shaping Science with Rhetoric, and Harris's collection, Rhetoric and Incommensurability.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2005-07-01
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10.1207/s15427625tcq1403_2
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