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Assembling Arguments
Multimodal Rhetoric & Scientific Discourse
In developing these claims, Buehl offers a comprehensive account of scientific persuasion as a multimodal process and develops a simple but productive framework for analyzing and teaching multimodal argumentation. Comprising five case studies, the book provides detailed treatments of argumentation in specific technological and historical contexts: argumentation before World War I, when images circulated by hand and by post; argumentation during the mid-twentieth century, when computers were beginning to bolster scientific inquiry but images remained hand-crafted products; and argumentation at the turn of the twenty-first century—an era of digital revolutions and digital fraud.
Each study examines the rhetorical problems and strategies of specific scientists to investigate key issues regarding visualization and argument: 1) establishing new instruments as reliable sources of visual evidence; 2) creating novel arguments from reliable visual evidence; 3) creating novel arguments with unreliable visual evidence; 4) preserving the credibility of visualization practices; and 5) creating multimodal artifacts before and in the era of digital circulation.
Given the growing enterprise of rhetorical studies and the field's contributions to communication practices in all disciplines, rhetoricians need a comprehensive rhetoric of science—one that accounts for the multimodal arguments that change our relation to reality. Assembling Arguments argues that such rhetoric should enable the interpretation of visual scientific arguments and improve science-writing instruction.
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"Assembling Arguments brings an impressive breadth of traditional and contemporary conceptual resources to bear on the question of how visual images contribute to scientific argumentation. Buehl rethinks rhetorical theory, enriches it with theories of cognition and visual perception, and applies his synthetic framework to a series of deeply engaged case studies of scientific argumentation, both historical and contemporary, involving both traditional and digital visual elements. It will be essential reading for those in both rhetoric of science and visual rhetoric"—Carolyn Miller, retired, North Carolina State University
"Jonathan Buehl has produced an important and timely investigation into the complex and multifaceted relationships between argumentation, science, multimodality, and ethics. He illuminates in impressive ways the rhetorical strategies and dynamics in a wide range of scientific cases, demonstrating the stakes of both science and rhetoric as disciplinary endeavors. Readers will especially appreciate the critical extension of his project into the pedagogical domain. This book will become required reading in rhetoric, composition, and communication programs."—Stuart A. Selber, Pennsylvania State University
Hardback | |
January 7, 2016 | |
9781611175615 | |
English | |
304 | |
12 color photos, 20 halftones, 47 line drawings | |
10.00 Inches (US) | |
7.00 Inches (US) | |
1.9 Pounds (US) | |
$62.99 USD | |
v2.1 Reference | |
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