Understanding Scientific Prose (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences)

Book Overview

Studies one scientific essay - The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme, by evolutionary theorists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin - as an example, to demonstrate and test new analytical approaches to scientific rhetoric.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029913900X
• ISBN13: 9780299139001
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.3"