Science as Sound Bites:The LancetIraq Casualty Reports and Prefigured Accommodation
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Eric Leake
- Source
- Technical Communication Quarterly. 21:129-144
- Subject
- geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
business.industry
Communication
media_common.quotation_subject
Political action
Lead author
Education
Rhetoric of science
Politics
Law
Reading (process)
Rhetorical question
Sociology
business
Accommodation
Sound (geography)
media_common
- Language
- ISSN
- 1542-7625
1057-2252
In this article I examine The Lancet Iraq casualty reports for their demonstration of prefigured accommodation, a rhetorical strategy in which the authors anticipate and attempt to influence their work's wider popularization. My reading of the reports and accompanying commentaries attends to the introduction of journalistic features and calls to political action. As part of my analysis, I interview a lead author of the reports about his rhetorical concerns in composing the work of a politically engaged science.