Commonplaces of Scientific Evidence in Environmental Discourses

摘要

Environmental discourses remain an important area of concern for technical communicators and rhetoricians who seek to evaluate the social actions of their genres (Dayton, 2002; Miller, 1984); address the topoi invoked by citizens, environmentalists, and scientists (Druschke, 2013; Walker & Walsh, 2011); and develop means of intervention through rhetorical and discursive practices (Blythe, Grabill, & Riley, 2008). Tillery's book Commonplaces of Scientific Evidence in Environmental Discourses extends these three areas by tracing commonplaces of science, or "common lines of argument" (p. 16), as they circulate in different environmental discourses: popular environmental writing, discourses of a grassroots organization, and data displays.