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Commonplaces of Scientific Evidence in Environmental Discourses

Denise Tillery
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analyzing environmental argumentation patterns
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Blog Entry
blogs
Building Tasks
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Category=GTC
Charles Sides
Classical Rhetorical Theory
climate change
commonplaces
Concrete Channel
critical discourse analysis
data
Data Displays
data visualization in climate
environmental communication
Environmental Discourses
Environmental Issues
environmental rhetoric
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eq_dictionaries-language-reference
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global warming
Gore's Book
Gore's Work
Gore’s Book
Gore’s Work
grassroots activism analysis
Heroic Truth Tellers
Hetch Hetchy
Hockey Stick
Hubristic Attempts
ideology in scientific discourse
IPCC Report
Lake Mead
Las Vegas Wash
media framing of evidence
Melodramatic Frame
Miles Kimball
Popular Environmental Writing
Popular Science Writing
research
Research Article
rhetoric
risk communication
Science Blogs
science communication
science communication strategies
science writing
Scientific Commonplaces
Silent Spring
social media
Technical Communication Scholars
technincal communicaiton
Vaccine Denialist

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138048225
  • Weight: 402g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Nov 2017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

This book focuses on the uses of scientific evidence within three types of environmental discourses: popular nonfiction books about the environment; traditional and social media texts created by a grassroots environmental group; and a set of data displays that make arguments about global warming in a variety of media and contexts. It traces the operations of eight commonplaces about science and shows how they recur throughout these contexts, starting with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and ending with contemporary blogs and social media. The commonplaces are shown to embed ideological assumptions and simultaneously challenge those assumptions. In addition, the book addresses the potential dangers involved in relying too heavily on aspects of these commonplaces, and how they can undermine the goals of some of the writers who use them.
About Denise Tillery
Denise Tillery is a Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, specializing in environmental rhetoric and programmatic issues in technical communication. Her recent work includes The New Normal: Pressures on Technical Communication Programs in Times of Austerity (Routledge, 2016), and numerous articles on environmental rhetoric.

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