This website contains materials for Dale Sullivan's English 754, Rhetorics of Science and Technology, for Fall 2009.

• Fall Syllabus for 754 (These documents will open in another tab or window)
• Guidelines for posting animations
• Sample animation post

Sullivan's Lectures on the Rhetoric of Science

1. Sullivan, Working Intro to ROS, Consider this and the next item lecture 1, preface and intro (for week 1)
2. Sullivan, Chapt. 2 of ROS, draft, Completion of lecture 1, General background on rhetoric (for week 1)
3. Sullivan, Chapt. 3 of ROS, draft, Lecture 2, Review of philosophy and sociology of science (for week 2)

Summaries of sociology and philosophy books used in Lecture 2. (for week 2)

• Sullivan, Summary of J. D. Bernal
• Sullivan, Summary of Wittgenstein
• Sullivan, Summary of Merton
• Sullivan, A Summary of Collingwood
• Sullivan, Summary of Hanson
• Sullivan, Summary of Winch
• Sullivan, Summary of Polanyi
• Sullivan, Summary of Toulmin's Uses of Argument
• Sullivan, Summary of Toulmin's Foersight and Understanding
• Sullivan, Summary of Kuhn
• Sullivan, Summary of Ziman
• Sullivan, Summary of Toulmin's Human Understanding
• Sullivan, Summary of Berger & Luckmann

Two articles that I have developed out of the chapters above. I have added referee comments below the second article because it represents a work in progress. It has been reviewed and rejected, but the feedback has been encouraging enough that I intend to submit it elsewhere. I include referee comments so that you can see how negotiations work with journal editors and how referees for journals give feedback.

• Sullivan, Emergence of the Rhetoric of Science (for week 2)
• Sullivan, Reading Leff as Epideictic (for week 1)
• Rejection letter (Reading Leff) with referee comments from Quarterly Journal of Speech (for week 1)

Sullivan's Lectures on the Rhetorics of Technology (These should be read during week three)

• Sullivan, An Introduction to the Rhetorics of Technology (posted Sept. 10, 2009)
• Sullivan, Moderating Controversial Technology. This article appeared in the international journal Hermes. It was an attempt to introduce the fields of technical communication and knowledge communication to the rhetoric of agriculture controversy.
• Sullivan, Critical Rhetoric and Extension Education. I submitted this essay to Technical Communication Quarterly. The referees' comments are in the next file. I hope to revise and resubmit, but I have not had time to work on it.
• Referee feedback on Critical Rhetoric from TCQ.
• Sullivan, Sustainability as a Rhetorical God Term

Also for week three, find an article in the GMO subsections of http://sullivanfiles.net/science_rhetoric/public_science/rps_index.html and post an animation of it. The GMO subsections begin a little below the middle of the linked web page.

Sullivan's Current Project: Lewis' Satire of J. D. Bernal's The Function of Science (Musings and drafts will be posted here as I work).

Collections (These pages open in a separate window or tab.)

• Rhetoric of Science
• Rhetoric of Public Science
• Rhetoric of Extension Education