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ERIC Number: EJ481052
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0994
Positivists, Postmodernists, Aristotelians, and the Challenger Disaster.
Walzer, Arthur E.; Gross, Alan
College English, v56 n4 p420-33 Apr 1994
Examines the deliberations prior to the Challenger disaster from the perspective of three major approaches in recent scholarship in rhetoric as applied to technical communications: positivism, postmodernistic social constructionism, and classical Aristotelianism. Champions an approach based on Aristotle's "Rhetoric." (HB)
Descriptors: Educational Trends, English Instruction, Epistemology, Higher Education, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Rhetoric, Theories, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Aristotle; Challenger Disaster; Literary Theory; Positivism; Pragmatism