id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1345 Rhetoric of science - Wikipedia .html text/html 6252 584 49 Bazerman's close readings of works by Newton and Compton as well as his analysis of the reading habits of physicists and others led to a greater understanding of the successes and failures of communication.[3]:623,4 For a depiction of the views of the more radical camp, see the section titled "Critique of Rhetoric of Science". The history of the rhetoric of science effectively begins with Thomas Kuhn's seminal work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). By the 1980s, Stephen Toulmin's work on argument fields published in his book titled The Uses of Argument (1958) came to prominence through rhetorical societies such as the Speech Communication Association which adopted a sociological view of science. A more recent trend in rhetorical studies involves participation in the broader new materialist movement in philosophy and science and technology studies.[14] This emerging area of inquiry investigates the role of rhetoric and discourse as an integral part of the Materialism of scientific practice. Prelli (1989) A Rhetoric of Science: Inventing Scientific Discourse, University of South Carolina Press ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1345.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1345.txt