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"The Verbal and the Visual in Science: A Heideggerian Perspective."  Science in Contest, 19
                (2006):  443-474
“What’s Right About Scientific Writing.” (with Joseph Harmon).
                The Scientist, 13 (December,9, 1999): 20.
“Learned Ignorance.” Two Be: A Journal of Ideas, 13 (1998): 94-96.
“The Challenger Disaster and the Revival of Rhetoric in Organizational Life.”
                 (with Arthur Walzer) Argumentation, 11 (1997): 75-93.
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“The Scientific Style Manual: A Reliable Guide to Practice?”
                (with Joseph Harmon)  Technical Communication, 43 (1996): 61-72
“Renewing Aristotelian Theory: Cold Fusion as a Test Case.”
                Quarterly Journal of Speech, 81(1995): 48-62.
“Positivists, Postmodernists, and Aristotelians and the Challenger Disaster.”
                College English, 56 (1994): 420-33.  With Arthur Walzer. 
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“Ending it All: Closure in Science and Its Philosophy.”
                Argumentation, 8 (1994): 9-20.
“Does the Rhetoric of Science Matter?  The Case of the Floppy Eared Rabbits.”
                College English, 53 (1991): 933-943. 
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“Extending the Expressive Power of Language: Tables, Graphs, and Diagrams.”
                Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 20 (1989-90): 221-235.
“A Primer on Tables and Figures.” Journal of Technical Writing and
                Communication, 13 (1983): 33-55.