Abstract

This article argues that fact sheets produced by environmental activists in response to proposed nuclear waste repositories constitute a new genre of scientific rhetoric. By analyzing the rhetorical features of these texts, including the simultaneous reliance on and distrust of scientific evidence, this article demonstrates how effective environmental activists' texts can be, in spite of the constraints and pressures of their rhetorical situation.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2003-10-01
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10.1207/s15427625tcq1204_4
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  1. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  2. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  3. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

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