Writing the social text  poetics and politics in social science discourse 
Richard Harvey Brown, editor. 
 - New York  A. de Gruyter  c1992. 
 - x, 230 p.  ill., map  24 cm. 
 - Communication and social order .
<br/><br/> Based on two conferences held at the University of Maryland in 1989. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Poetics, politics, and truth : an invitation to rhetorical analysis / Richard Harvey Brown -- Text/context : the rhetoric of the social sciences / Julie Thompson Klein -- The interpretation of disciplinary writing / Charles Bazerman -- No anthro-apologies, or der(r)iding a discipline / Renée Denūvo -- Textual form and social formation in Evans-Pritchard and Levi-Strauss / Michael Herzfeld -- Communication, persuasion, and the establishment of academic disciplines : the case of American psychology / David E. Leary -- Poetics and politics in ethnographic texts : a view from the colonial ethnography of Afghanistan / Jon W. Anderson -- Listening for the silences : the rhetorics of the research field / Joseph R. Gusfield -- The rhetoric efficiency : applied social science as depoliticization / Hilkka Summa -- Fact, fiction, and factions : scandal, controversy, and "filemaking" as social theory / Carl Milofsky -- Human needs and control : a foundation for human science and critique / Paul Sites -- Narration, reason, and community / Walter R. Fisher -- From suspicion to affirmation : post-modernism and the challenges of 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0202303861 (cloth : alk. paper) 020230387X (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>91019147  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Discourse analysis<br/>Rhetoric<br/>Humanities--Methodology.<br/>Social sciences--Methodology.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>H61  / .W86 1991 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>300/.1