Overview

Academic writing on environmental communication proliferated in the 1990's. A few of us had been calling for such work and making initial investigations throughout the 1980's, but the momentum in the field built slowly. Spurred by coverage in the mass media, academic publishers finally caught the wave of interest. In this exciting new volume, the editors demonstrate more fully than ever before how environmental rhetoric and technical communication go hand in hand. The key link that they and their distinguished group of contributors have discovered is the ancient concern of communication scholars with public deliberation. Environmental issues present technical communicators with some of their greatest challenges, above all, how to make the highly specialized and inscrutably difficult technical information generated by environmental scientists and engineers usable in public decision making. The editors encourage us to accept the challenge of contributing to environmentally conscious decision making by integrating technical knowledge and human values. For technical communicators who accept the challenge of working toward solutions by opening access to crucial information and by engaging in critical thinking on ecological issues, the research and theory offered in this volume provide a strong foundation for future practice.

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Author:   Nancy W. Coppola ,  Bill Karis
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume:   No. 11
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.707kg
ISBN:  

9781567504804

ISBN 10:   1567504809
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   01 February 2000
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword M. Jimmie Killingsworth Introduction Nancy Coppola and Bill Karis Theoretical Perspectives and Models in Technical Communication and Environmental Rhetoric Defining Sustainable Development:A Case Study in Environmental Communication Craig Waddell Rhetorical Analysis of Stakeholders in Environmental Communication:A Model Nancy W. Coppola Environmental Discourse and Bakhtinian Dialogue:Toward a Dialogic Rhetoric of Diversity Kyle Glover reening ""Gray Literature"":Recovering Rhetorical Models for Environmental Discourse Mark Schlenz Visual Thinking and Multimedia Strategies in Technical Communication and Environmental Rhetoric Geology,Photograph,and Environmental Rhetoric in the American West of 1860-1890 Gregory A. Wickliff Modernism and the New Picturesque James Frost Rhetoric of Disengagement:Interpretive Talks in the National Parks Zita Ingham Multimedia Pedagogy and Environmental Communication:The Rhetoric of Citizen Action in the Information Age Branda S. Miller Case Studies in Technical Communication and Environmental Rhetoric Association and Dissociation in an Ecological Controversy:The Great Whale Case Francois Cooren and James R. Taylor Reasons Why:Describing Polorized Orientations Toward Perception of Environmental Risk Craig W. Trumbo Rhetoric,Habermas,and the Adirondack Park:An Exemplum for Rhetoricians Bill Karis The Environmental Rhetoric of ""Balance"":A Case Study of Regulatory Discourse and the Colonization of the Public Robert Patterson and Ronald Lee Green Guilt:An Effective Rhetoric or Rhetoric in Transition Arlene Plevin Scientific Inquiry in Technical Communication and Environmental Rhetoric Environmental Policymaking and the Report Genre Carolyn D. Rude The Rhetoric of the Probable in Scientific Commentaries:The Debate Over the Species Status of the Red Wolf Yvonne M. Ranch Anarchy in Range Science:Allan Savory and the Rhetoric of Holistic Resource Management A.Chiaviello Author and Subject Index"

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NANCY W. COPPOLA is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Master of Science program in Professional and Technical Communiation at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. In addition to publishing articles on environmental communication and pedagogy, she is co-author of Environmental Perservation and Pollution Prevention:Science and Humainties Perspectives (1997). BILL KARIS is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Technical Communications at Clarkson Univerisity. He has published in Rhetoric Review, Journal of Business and Technical Communications, Journal of Engineering Technology, Technical Communication, IEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and Technical Communication Quarterly, as well as a recent Ablex collection (Sebler,1997). He co-edited, with Jimmie Killingsworth,a special issue of CQ (Winter,1997) focusing on environmental discourse.

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