Research and writing often begin with a play of determinacy and indeterminacy, or “in-determinacy” Do. Other disciplinary levels include invention and presuppositions D1, formal findings D2, and technical and media products D3. This rhetorical approach leads, here, to identifying levels and relationships; tracing cross-disciplinary information and dominant influences; applying the results to specific cases in science, literary criticism, ethics, and technical writing; thus, suggesting a typology for furthering such dialogue.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
JudsonH. F., The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1979.
2.
KellerE. F., The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, W. H. Freeman, New York, 1983.
3.
CarrollL., Alice in Wonderland, GrayD. J. (ed.), W. W. Norton, New York, 1971.
4.
StevensW., Of Modern Poetry, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, pp. 239–240, 1954.
5.
PapinL., This Is Not a Universe: Metaphor, Language and Representation, PMLA, 107:5, pp. 1253–1265, 1992.
6.
HalloranS. M., Technical Writing and the Rhetoric of Science, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 8:2, pp. 77–88, 1978.
7.
MillerC. R., A Humanistic Rationale for Technical Writing, College English, 40:6, pp. 610–617, 1979.
8.
RutterR., History Rhetoric, and Humanism: Toward a More Comprehensive Definition of Technical Communication, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 21:2, pp. 133–153,1991.
9.
LyonA., Paideia to Pedantry: The Dissolving Relationship of the Humanities and Society, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 18:1, pp. 55–62, 1988.
10.
WhitburnM. D., The Ideal Orator and Literary Critic as Technical Communicator: An Emerging Revolution in English Departments, in Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse, ConnorsR. J.EdeL. S., and LunsfordA. A. (eds.), Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, pp. 226–247, 1984.
11.
KuhnT., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2nd Edition), University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1970.
12.
PorushD., Making Chaos: Two Views of a New Science, New England Review and Breadloaf Quarterly, 12, pp. 427–442, 1990.
13.
FeyerabendP., Against Method, Verso, London, 1975.
14.
BarbourI. G., Myths, Models and Paradigms, A Comparative Study in Science and Religion, Harper & Row, New York, 1974.
15.
FryeN., The Archetypes of Literature, in Criticism, the Major Statements, KaplanC. and AndersonW. (eds.), St. Martin's Press, New York, pp. 500–514, 1991.
16.
BeckC., Implications of Metaphors in Defining Technical Communication, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 21:1, pp. 3–15, 1991.
17.
StrobosS., Philosophical Origins of the Concept of Technical Writing, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 22:3, pp. 247–257, 1992.
18.
BellahR. N., Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, Harper and Row, New York, 1985.
19.
CrickF., Of Molecules and Men, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1966.
20.
RolstonH., Science and Religion: A Critical Survey, Random House, New York, 1987.
21.
PenroseR., The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics, Oxford University Press, New York, 1989.
22.
PetersenA., The Philosophy of Niels Bohr, in Niels Bohr: A Centenary Volume, FrenchA. P. and KennedyP. J. (eds.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, pp. 299–310, 1985.
23.
FahnestockJ. and SecorM., The Rhetoric of Literary Criticism, in Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities, BazermanC. and ParadesJ. (eds.), University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, pp. 76–96, 1991.
24.
CarlisleE. F., Literature, Science, and Language: A Study of Similarity and Difference, Pretext, 1, pp. 39–72, 1980.
25.
MillerC. R., Invention in Technical and Scientific Discourse: A Prospective Survey in Research, in Technical Communication: A Bibliographic Sourcebook, MorganM. G. and JournetD. (eds.), Westport Press, Greenwood, pp. 117–162, 1985.
26.
HoltonG., Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein (Revised Edition), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1988.
27.
BauerC. H., Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1992.
28.
PolanyiM., Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy, Harper, New York, 1964.
29.
GouldS. J., An Urchin in the Storm, Norton, New York, 1987.
30.
KuhnT., The Essential Tension. Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1977.
31.
FeyerabendP., Science in a Free Society, NLB, London, 1978.
32.
HarrisR. A., Rhetoric of Science, College English, 53:3, pp. 282–307, March 1991.
33.
MarkelM., Induction, Social Constructionism, and the Form of the Science Paper, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 23:1, pp. 7–22, 1993.
34.
PaceyA., The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1974.
35.
LaschC., The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics, Norton, New York, 1991.
36.
HawkingS. W., A Brief History of Time From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Bantam Books, New York, 1988.
37.
JohnsonG., Cosmic Noise, The New York Times, Sec. 4 p. 1, July 10, 1994.
38.
OdumE. P., Biosphere 2, A New Kind of Science, Science, 260, pp. 878–879, May 14, 1993.
39.
CahillL. S., “Abortion Pill” RU486: Ethics, Rhetoric, and Social Practice, Hastings Center Report, pp. 5–8, October/November 1987.
40.
CohenJ., Behavioral Conundrums, Science, 264, May 20, 1994.
41.
MilgramS., Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View, Harper and Row, New York, 1974.
42.
ArnoldV. D. and MalleyJ. C., Communication: The Missing Link in the Challenger Disaster, The Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 51, pp. 12–14, 1988.
43.
HerndlC. G.FennellB. A., and MillerC. R., Understanding Failures in Organizational Communication: The Accident at Three Mile Island and the Shuttle Challenger Disaster in Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities, BazermanC. and BaradisJ. (eds.), University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, pp. 279–305, 1991.
44.
WalzerA. E. and GrossA., Positivists, Postmodernists, Aristotelians, and the Challenger Disaster, College English, 56:4, pp. 420–434, April 1994.
45.
DombroskiP. M., Challenger Though the Eyes of Feyerabend, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 24:1, pp. 7–18, 1994.
46.
PaolettiRobert A., The Scientific Method Paradigm as an Heuristic for Problem Solving in the Liberal Arts, in Proceedings of the Second Annual National Conference on Problem Solving Across the Curriculum, Aurora, New York, pp. 73–79, 1991.
47.
PaolettiRobert A. and VallettaClement L., A Structural Heuristic and Writing: Language and DNA Upon a Blue Guitar, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 17:3, pp. 215–229, 1987.
48.
PaolettiRobert A., Developmental-genetic and Psycho-social Positions Regarding the Ontological Status of the Fetus, Linacre Quarterly, pp. 243–261, 1977.
49.
PaolettiRobert A., Selected Readings: Genetic Engineering and Bioethics (2nd Edition), MSS Information Corporation, 1974.
50.
PaolettiRobert A., Selected Readings: Genetic Engineering and Bioethics, MSS Information Corporation, 1972.
51.
PaolettiRobert A. with HuangRu-Chih C., Characterization of Sea Urchin Chromatin and Its Basic Protein, Biochemistry, 8, p. 1615, 1969.
52.
VallettaClement L., American Literature Teaching Methodology, in Computerized Instruction Guide, BarrsR. (ed.), D. C. Heath, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1993.
53.
VallettaClement L., Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor and DeLillo's Libra, in Christianity and Literature Conference Proceedings, A.GrassoC.S.C. (ed.), King's College, Wilkes-Barre, pp. 81–90, 1992.
54.
VallettaClement L., “To Battle for Our Ideas”: Community Ethic and Anthracite Labor, 1920–40, Pennsylvania History, 58:4, pp. 311–329, 1991.
55.
VallettaClement L. and PaolettiRobert, A Structural Heuristic and Writing: Language and DNA Upon a Blue Guitar, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 17:3, pp. 215–229, 1987.
56.
VallettaClement L., A Study of Americanization in Carneta, Arno Press, New York, 1975.
57.
VallettaClement L., Einstein, Edison and the Conquest of Irony, Cithara, 12, pp. 34–52, 1972.
