Description:
This volume examines how scientists learn about and then address their audiences, studying scientific rhetoric in actual practice. For scholars and students in scientific and technical writing, rhetoric, studies of science, and related areas.
Review Quotes:
"The author unconventionally positions appendixes at the ends of chapters. Footnotes are also included after each chapter, making them possibly more accessible. The book has excellent author and subject indexes....I recommend the book to students of rhetoric and those so interested in how scientists communicate in print....Interacting With Audiences is a complex and useful analysis of the interactions of scientists who write to persuade interdisciplinary readers."
--Technical Communication
"...the book provides a communication framework that scholars may want to consider as cross-disciplinary alliances continue to develop. It also confirms what has been known for quite some time in the communication field: that there is nothing passive about audiences. The process of introducing new ideas and persuading audiences is a dynamic and highly active one."
--American Journal of Psychology