Randy Allen Harris is Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, specializing in cognitive and computational issues of Rhetoric and Linguistics. His books include The Linguistic Wars (1995, 2018), Voice Interaction Design (2004), Rhetoric and Incommensurability (2005), Literature, Rhetoric, and Values (2012), and Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Theories, Themes, and Methods (forthcoming at Routledge).

• Table of contentsIntroductionGiants in Science1. John Angus Campbell Charles Darwin: Rhetorician of Science 2. Alan G. Gross On the Shoulders of Giants: Seventeenth-Century Optics as an Argument Field3. S. Michael Halloran The Birth of Molecular Biology: An Essay in the Rhetorical Criticism of Scientific Discourse 4. James Wynn Alone in the Garden: How Gregor Mendel’s inattention to audience may have affected the reception of his theory of inheritance in Experiments in Plant HybridizationConflict in Science5. Jeanne Fahnestock Arguing in Different Forums: The Bering Crossover Controversy 6. John Lyne and Henry F. Howe Punctuated Equilibria": Rhetorical Dynamics of a Scientific Controversy7. Lawrence J. Prelli The Rhetorical Construction of Scientific Ethos8. Leah Ceccarelli Manufactured Scientific Controversy: Science, Rhetoric, and Public DebatePublic Science9. Richard M. Weaver Dialectic and Rhetoric at Dayton, Tennessee10. Craig Waddell The Role of Pathos in the Decision-Making Process: A Study in the Rhetoric of Science Policy11. Carol Reeves Owning a Virus: The Rhetoric of Scientific Discovery Accounts12. Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher [formerly Kelly] and Carolyn R. Miller Intersections: Scientific and Parascientific Communication on the InternetWriting Science13. Charles Bazerman Reporting the Experiment: The Changing Account of Scientific Doings in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1665–180014. Greg Myers Text as Knowledge Claims: The Social Construction of Two Biology Articles15. Michelle Sidler The Chemistry Liveblogging Event

Randy Allen Harris is Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, specializing in cognitive and computational issues of Rhetoric and Linguistics. His books include The Linguistic Wars (1995, 2018), Voice Interaction Design (2004), Rhetoric and Incommensurability (2005), Literature, Rhetoric, and Values (2012), and Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Theories, Themes, and Methods (forthcoming at Routledge).

• Table of contentsIntroductionGiants in Science1. John Angus Campbell Charles Darwin: Rhetorician of Science 2. Alan G. Gross On the Shoulders of Giants: Seventeenth-Century Optics as an Argument Field3. S. Michael Halloran The Birth of Molecular Biology: An Essay in the Rhetorical Criticism of Scientific Discourse 4. James Wynn Alone in the Garden: How Gregor Mendel’s inattention to audience may have affected the reception of his theory of inheritance in Experiments in Plant HybridizationConflict in Science5. Jeanne Fahnestock Arguing in Different Forums: The Bering Crossover Controversy 6. John Lyne and Henry F. Howe Punctuated Equilibria": Rhetorical Dynamics of a Scientific Controversy7. Lawrence J. Prelli The Rhetorical Construction of Scientific Ethos8. Leah Ceccarelli Manufactured Scientific Controversy: Science, Rhetoric, and Public DebatePublic Science9. Richard M. Weaver Dialectic and Rhetoric at Dayton, Tennessee10. Craig Waddell The Role of Pathos in the Decision-Making Process: A Study in the Rhetoric of Science Policy11. Carol Reeves Owning a Virus: The Rhetoric of Scientific Discovery Accounts12. Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher [formerly Kelly] and Carolyn R. Miller Intersections: Scientific and Parascientific Communication on the InternetWriting Science13. Charles Bazerman Reporting the Experiment: The Changing Account of Scientific Doings in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1665–180014. Greg Myers Text as Knowledge Claims: The Social Construction of Two Biology Articles15. Michelle Sidler The Chemistry Liveblogging Event

Randy Allen Harris is Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, specializing in cognitive and computational issues of Rhetoric and Linguistics. His books include The Linguistic Wars (1995, 2018), Voice Interaction Design (2004), Rhetoric and Incommensurability (2005), Literature, Rhetoric, and Values (2012), and Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Theories, Themes, and Methods (forthcoming at Routledge).

• Table of contentsIntroductionGiants in Science1. John Angus Campbell Charles Darwin: Rhetorician of Science 2. Alan G. Gross On the Shoulders of Giants: Seventeenth-Century Optics as an Argument Field3. S. Michael Halloran The Birth of Molecular Biology: An Essay in the Rhetorical Criticism of Scientific Discourse 4. James Wynn Alone in the Garden: How Gregor Mendel’s inattention to audience may have affected the reception of his theory of inheritance in Experiments in Plant HybridizationConflict in Science5. Jeanne Fahnestock Arguing in Different Forums: The Bering Crossover Controversy 6. John Lyne and Henry F. Howe Punctuated Equilibria": Rhetorical Dynamics of a Scientific Controversy7. Lawrence J. Prelli The Rhetorical Construction of Scientific Ethos8. Leah Ceccarelli Manufactured Scientific Controversy: Science, Rhetoric, and Public DebatePublic Science9. Richard M. Weaver Dialectic and Rhetoric at Dayton, Tennessee10. Craig Waddell The Role of Pathos in the Decision-Making Process: A Study in the Rhetoric of Science Policy11. Carol Reeves Owning a Virus: The Rhetoric of Scientific Discovery Accounts12. Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher [formerly Kelly] and Carolyn R. Miller Intersections: Scientific and Parascientific Communication on the InternetWriting Science13. Charles Bazerman Reporting the Experiment: The Changing Account of Scientific Doings in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1665–180014. Greg Myers Text as Knowledge Claims: The Social Construction of Two Biology Articles15. Michelle Sidler The Chemistry Liveblogging Event