How rhetoric confuses scientific issues

Cox, Barbara G.; Roland, Charles G.

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“…Or rather, in line with universal principles of taking specialized knowledge out of its specialized adornment and re-draping it in standard, observational language: "You need to find ways to translate your research into words that a lay audience can understand…So I mean I think in criminology and criminal justice, just as in other specialized fields, we have a specialized language but I think it's incumbent on us to explain what those terms mean…" (Author 35). In this sense, clear scientific writing is discussed as separating science and rhetoric (Miller, 1979), where complicated words are seen as bloated, loaded language or the production of false knowledge that obscures reality (Cox & Roland, 1973). Thus in line the universal view of social science writing, absolute communication identifies that "knowing is seeing" (Abbott & Eubanks, 2005, p. 192) where complex material can be distilled into simple words that transcend community boundaries.…”

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The styles of criminology : writing among the stars.

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This study investigates how criminological writing style is "a [more] complicated terrain" than we realize in criminology (Butler, 1990, p. xix). Data is drawn from interviews with forty of the one hundred most influential criminological writers (Walters, 2015) to explore perceptions of good writing in the field, namely in describing writing practices, norms and values. Thus, the findings of this study come in three chapters. The first two result chapters explore the terrain of writing in criminology by presenting perceptions of best practices and values of good writing. The third results chapter then examines these perceptions within a lens of writing studies and literary theory, which juxtaposes universal and socio-cultural perspectives of writing. By framing perceptions of best practices and values for good writing within a writing studies and literary theory framework, this study demonstrates that the way criminology perceives and discusses writing is different from the way writing works in criminology in reality. Last, this study provides conceptual implications that demonstrate how thinking about writing incorrectly forecloses potentially fruitful writing perspectives and practical implications that suggests how writing studies can benefit the future of the criminological enterprise. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER

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The styles of criminology : writing among the stars.

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Research on Technical and Scientific Communication in Canada: A Bibliographical Odyssey

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1994

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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This select bibliography highlights research on technical communication published by, for or about Canadians. It classifies Canadian research by form (books and articles) and by subject (translation studies; technology studies; graphics studies; historical studies; studies of the profession; specialty studies; genre studies; and linguisticdstylistic analyses). Cette bibliographie s6lective est consac& aux recherches dans le domaine de la communication technique au Canada. Elle repupe des recherches faites par des cherchem canadiens, des recherches faites pour le public canadien ou encore des rechemhes SIN la communication technique telle que pmtiquk au Canada. Les ouvrages sont class& par format f i m s et articles) et par sujet

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How rhetoric confuses scientific issues

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The styles of criminology : writing among the stars.

The styles of criminology : writing among the stars.

Research on Technical and Scientific Communication in Canada: A Bibliographical Odyssey

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