Where’s the Rhetoric? Broader Impacts in Collaborative Research

The Radical Insufficiency and Wily Possibilities of RSTEM

“…In the spirit of considering how to build these relationships with colleagues in the sciences, engineering, and medicine, to get out of the mode of distanced critique and into the mode of being suggestive, creative, and visionary by working "from the inside" of science, I offer a useful, but certainly not exhaustive, list of recommendations for building relationships across rhetoric and the sciences-what Leah Ceccarelli pointed to as "best practices for engaging scientists with public outreach" (Ceccarelli, 2014)-that will offer the possibilities to co-produce knowledge across STEM and RSTEM. These modes offer possibilities where, as I once suggested in this journal, "We can suspend belief in the boundary drawn between rhetoric and science and conceive of a future where rhetoric of science becomes an integral part of the practice of science itself" (Druschke, 2014, 6):…”

Book Review: On the frontier of science: An American rhetoric exploration and exploitation

“…Yet I believe it would be a mistake to view On the Frontier of Science from the perspective of rhetorical critique alone. Indeed, Ceccarelli's scholarly program seems to be informed by a broader and perhaps more complex motive to explore possibilities for collaboration between rhetoricians, researchers in the field of science and technology studies, and working scientists (see Ceccarelli, 2013Ceccarelli, , 2014. From this perspective, the book potentially accomplishes at least two related objectives.…”