Rhetoric of the Human Sciences – serie

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.

This work argues that the core of a college education should be learning to write a reasoned argument. The author challenges his readers - teachers of writing and communication, philosophers, critical theorists and educational administrators - to reestablish the importance of rhetoric in education.