Assembling arguments : multimodal rhetoric and scientific discourse /

"Scientific arguments--and indeed arguments in most disciplines--depend on visuals and other nontextual elements; however, most models of argumentation typically neglect these important resources. In Assembling Arguments, Jonathan Buehl offers a concentrated study of scientific argumentation th...

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Main Author: Buehl, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:Studies in rhetoric/communication.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Motives and methods for a multimodal rhetoric of science. Scientific visuals : rhetorical potential and rhetorical problems
  • Toward a multimodal rhetoric of science
  • Part 2. X-ray diffraction crystallography. From agreements to images : the rhetorical foundations of x-ray crystallography
  • From images to arguments : assembling a multimodal argument in 1912
  • From arguments to alternatives : rhetorical recirculation in 1912
  • Part 3. Seafloor spreading. Mapping motion through magnetism : the rhetorical conception of the Vine-Matthews-Morley hypothesis
  • From artifact to argument to object of agreement : the assembly and circulation of magnetic anomaly maps
  • From profiles to timelines : the assembly and circulation of world-moving arguments
  • Part 4. The twilight zone between clouds and aerosols. Naming the sky : rhetorical definitions and atmospheric science
  • Revising the twilight zone : the assembly of a multimodal scientific dissociation
  • Tracking the twilight zone : the circulation of a multimodal dissociation
  • Part 5. Image editors and moving Images : technologies of argumentation
  • Learning from the era when science met photoshop : toward an ethical rhetoric of the digital scientific image
  • Integrating moving images into scientific arguments : from "pseudomovies" to "see movie 1"
  • Assembling lessons from assembling arguments.