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CFP for NCA 2019

Call for Papers Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine NCA 2019: Communication for Survival Submit online through Convention Central: https://www.natcom.org/nca-105th-annual-convention-communication-survival The purpose of the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) is to promote research, teaching, and civic engagement that explores the communicative and persuasive dimensions of scientific, technical, and biomedical texts, genres, practices, materials, and settings. Members are concerned… Read More »CFP for NCA 2019

Joanna Ploeger Memorial Essay Award Winner Announced at NCA

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At the ARSTM@NCA Business Meeting, outgoing ARSTM President Zoltan Majdik announced the 2018 winner of the Joanna Ploeger Memorial Essay Award for the top student papers submitted to sponsored ARSTM NCA panels. The winner was Jay Frank, for his paper “Scott Pruitt’s ‘Red Team/Blue Team’ and the cultural politics of scientific debate.” Frank presented his paper on the ARSTM-sponsored top papers panel at the annual… Read More »Joanna Ploeger Memorial Essay Award Winner Announced at NCA

Co-Winners of 2018 Article of the Year Award Announced

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The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine’s (ARSTM) Article of the Year Award committee has selected two co-winners of the 2018 award for the most outstanding article on the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine published in the preceding calendar year (2017). The committee selected Melissa Carrion for her article “’You need to do your research’: Vaccines, contestable science, and maternal epistemology,”… Read More »Co-Winners of 2018 Article of the Year Award Announced

Bridie McGreavy Wins 2017 Article of the Year Award

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The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine’s (ARSTM) Article of the Year Award committee has selected Bridie McGreavy for her article “Resilience as Discourse” published in Environmental Communication. The committee unanimously agreed that Dr. McGreavy’s use of archaeological methods to make resilience discourse visible to interdisciplinary audiences has remarkable potential to extend practical and theoretical knowledge related to RSTM. Dr. McGreavy’s thorough… Read More »Bridie McGreavy Wins 2017 Article of the Year Award

POROI Issue 12.2 Now Available

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The most recent issue of POROI, an interdisciplinary journal of rhetorical analysis and invention, includes a “Symposium on Engaged Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine,” which came out of a panel on interdisciplinary engagement featured at the 2016 ARSTM RSA pre-conference. The symposium includes papers by Lauren E. Cagle, Kenneth Walker, Sara B. Parks, and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, with an introduction by Carl G. Herndl. This… Read More »POROI Issue 12.2 Now Available

2016 Award Winners

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New ARST award winners announced for the 2016 year. Visit the Ploeger Memorial Award andArticle of the Year pages for more information. All winners will be recognized at the ARSTM business meeting at NCA.

ARSTM Vicennial Materials

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Position papers and response papers written for the Vicennial Celebration are now available in a special issue of POROI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention.Check it out here.