Composition and the Rhetoric of Science : Engaging the Dominant Discourse.

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Author / Creator:	Zerbe, Michael J.
Imprint:	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (233 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching. Interdisciplinary approach in education. Report writing -- Study and teaching. Science -- Study and teaching. English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching. Interdisciplinary approach in education. Report writing -- Study and teaching. Science -- Study and teaching. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11203077

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ISBN:	9780809387441 0809387441 1299754511 9781299754515 9780809327409 0809327406
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Composition and the Rhetoric of Science: Engaging the Dominant Discourse calls for instructors of first-year writing courses to employ primary scientific discourse in their teaching and for rhetoricians of science to think about teaching scientific discourse as a literacy skill. Author Michael J. Zerbe argues that inclusion of scientific discourse is crucial because of this rhetoric's status as the dominant discourse in western culture. The volume draws on Lyotard, Žižek, Foucault, and Althusser to argue that while important theorists such as these.
Other form:	Print version: Zerbe, Michael J. Composition and the Rhetoric of Science : Engaging the Dominant Discourse. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2007 9780809327409

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