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Acknowledgments A multiplicity of voices inhabits this book. Friends, colleagues, and mentors who have read and commented on drafts of parts of this work are Michelle Comstock, Bill Hart-Davidson, Tom Moriarty, Tim Peeples, Ed Nagelhout, Graham Smart, Bud Weiser, Janice Lauer, Patricia Harkin, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Janet Zepernick, and Dominic DelliCarpini. Neither their contributions to this book nor my appreciation for them can be underestimated. I have enjoyed enormously fulfilling conversations about rhetoric, composition, and/or science with Bill Voige, Dan O’Sullivan, Paul Anderson, Jean Lutz, Bill Hardesty, Paul Puccio, Shirley Rose, Jeff Jablonski, Carlos Salinas, Jon Bush, Baotong Gu, Jim Porter, Cindy Ryan, Elizabeth Pass, Alice Philbin, Mark Hawthorne, Roger Munger, Brenda Orbell, Jack Selzer, Amanda Young, Barbara Heifferon , Harrison Carpenter, and Charles Bazerman. Chris Strickling was kind enough to provide a syllabus for her fascinating composition course at the University of Texas that focused on weight loss. I received valuable advice from Bruce McComiskey, and I am grateful for it. Students at York College of Pennsylvania, James Madison University, and Purdue University have listened and responded to my ideas about rhetoric and science with patience and enthusiasm. I have learned a great deal from them. I am grateful to York College of Pennsylvania and to Purdue University for research grants that allowed me to pursue this project. Additionally , I am indebted to many helpful people from libraries at York College of Pennsylvania, Penn State University (University Park campus, Harrisburg campus, and College of Medicine), Messiah College, James Madison University, Idaho State University, and Purdue University. Administrative support from Deb Staley, Sandra Diener, Judy Powell, Lisa Hartman, Benita Smith, Jill Quirk, and Julie Knoeller has been invaluable. I thank AAAS for permission to reproduce the illustrations in chapter 7. At Southern Illinois University Press, I thank Karl Kageff for his steadfast support and helpful suggestions. I am also grateful to Bridget Brown, Barb Martin, and Kathleen Kageff at the Press for their assistance. Louie Simon performed an absolutely fabulous editing job. The detailed suggestions of Alan Gross and Tim Peeples, who reviewed this manuscript xi for SIU Press, helped transform this project into a much more coherent and forceful text. Carmen, Alejandro, and my family have been with me every step of the way. I could not be more fortunate. xii Acknowledgments Composition and the Rhetoric of Science ...

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