Contending Rhetorics
Writing in Academic Disciplines
Published on 1. November 1991
Book
Hardback
196 pages
978-0-253-31743-8 (ISBN)
Description
Supposedly a worthwhile endeavor, scholarly and scientific writing to most people is abstract, impersonal, impractical, and sometimes impossible to read. This book examines this discourse, studies its relation to practical, everyday writing, and tells us why scholarly writing is anything but uniform and monolithic, and worth reading.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-31743-8 (9780253317438)
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Content
Preface Introduction: After the Carnival Part I: Foundations I. Reason, Rationality, and Rhetoric II. Impersonality and Its Discontents Part II: Applications III. Irony and Reflexivity: Rhetoric and Social Construction IV. Arguments and Appeals: Rhetorics of the Social Sciences V. Dialogues with the Dead: The Rhetorics of History Part III: Implications VI. Conversation, Dialectic, and the Question of Closure Conclusion: A Contention of Rhetorics Notes Index