Books in the Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series series

This volume explores knowledge production in defence technology from the Cold War to the 1990s, highlighting technology development and technology transfer. It also includes cited documents pertaining to the transactions that engage customers and vendors in the process of knowledge production.

Comprising a five-year study, this text examines four engineering students as they write at work. Primarily concerned with whether engineers see their writing as rhetorical or persuasive, the study aims to describe the students' changing understanding of what it is they do when they write.

The author of this book argues that a full-bodied embrace of constructivist theory requires that educators forego "knowledge as we know it", and he recommends a "rhetorical" approach to constructivist instruction that recognizes the cultural, social and behavioural practices.

This work examines rhetorical practice relating to situations of risk and how documents and communication succeed or fail in these contexts. It should be of use to scholars in technical communication, rhetoric, and related areas.

This work provides an examination of the relationship between written communication in academic and workplace contexts. It is aimed at writing researchers, teachers, programme designers, and others concerned with writing in academic and business arenas.

This work describes the changing language and rhetoric of English-speaking scientists across the 17th-20th centuries. It combines analytical methodologies in the description of scientific writing and offers a "wide angle" perspective that examines the evolution of writing from 1675 to 1975.

This volume examines how scientists learn about and then address their audiences, studying scientific rhetoric in actual practice. For scholars and students in scientific and technical writing, rhetoric, studies of science, and related areas.

This work is not a history of the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa; instead it is an analysis of a new ecology of rhetoric. Its aim is to arrive at a general view of issues as they have taken shape in the particular South Africa experience.

This volume examines the everyday rhetorical practices of a group of scientists, studying the planning and implementation of their discoursive practices, designed to uncover the role of interaction in audience knowledge.