Science Communication, Online Journalism, Technical Writing, Communication Research and Corporate Communication

Publication and Controversy in Epidemiology: Investigators' Publication Decisions

by David Rier

Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia Unviersity, 1995.

Toward a Feminist Rhetoric of Technology

by Amy Koerber

Published in Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Jan 2000. Vol. 14, Iss. 1, pp. 58-73

This article extends current thinking about the rhetoric of technology by making a preliminary inquiry into what a... more This article extends current thinking about the rhetoric of technology by making a preliminary inquiry into what a feminist rhetoric of technology might look like. On the basis of feminist critiques of technology in various disciplines, the author suggests three ways in which feminist approaches to building a rhetoric of technology might differ from current nonfeminist approaches to this task.

Acknowledging or Denying Membership: Reviewers' Responses to Non-Anglophone Scientists' Manuscripts

by Karen Englander

Co-authored with Guadalupe Lopez-Bonilla
Published in "Discourse Studies" (2011) vol 13 p. 395 - 416

Publishing scientific articles is a crucial activity performed by a scientist to demonstrate inclusion as part of the... more Publishing scientific articles is a crucial activity performed by a scientist to demonstrate inclusion as part of the community of scientists: a community constituted by journal editors, reviewers, authors and readers. A manuscript submitted to journals is first read by reviewers, and their decision to accept it creates membership in the community for the author with its attendant privileges of ingroup status. Rejection bars such membership. In this article we examine the language used by this powerful individual – the journal reviewer – to recognize another individual – the author – as being a member or not. Five reviewer reports of two different manuscripts submitted
by non-native English-speaking authors are analyzed in this case study. Complementary discourse analytical approaches are used: group ideology, syntactic structure and personal pronouns. The analysis of the linguistic strategies used reveals three distinct positions that the reviewers adopt within this under-researched genre.

Constructing social representations of science and technology: the role of metaphors in the press and the popular scientific magazines

by Vasilia Christidou

Co-authored with Kostas Dimopoulos and Vasilis Koulaidis. Published in 'Public Understanding of Science', 2004.

The paper aims to reveal the social representations about the nature and the evolution of Space-Science &... more The paper aims to reveal the social representations about the nature and the evolution of Space-Science & Astronomy, Genetics & Biotechnology, Natural Sciences and Engineering & Informatics, through analyzing active metaphors found in 2303 technoscientific articles published in four Greek daily newspapers and two popular scientific magazines.