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Science and Nature Writing [Special Issue II].

By Bates, Christine
Publication: Technical Communication
Date: Sunday, August 1 2004

Science and Nature Writing [Special Issue II]

R. Johnson-Sheehan and P. Bogard, eds. 2003. Technical communication quarterly 12:364-480.

"This second part ... brought us face-to-face with the central theme that holds this emerging genre together. Above all, the consistent

theme in these articles is the heightened importance of context, to the point at which it becomes an active agent that shapes thought and prose. In science and nature writing, context takes on various names, including landscape, scene, setting, rhetorical situation, place, space, the land, milieu, exigency, environment, ecology, among others. In this genre, the natural world is not merely a backdrop for human activities. Rather, context actively shapes how people interact, interpret, and respond to the natural world. It becomes, as a few authors in this issue argue directly or indirectly, an agent in the narrative. Science and nature writers foreground this shaping effect of context, inviting the natural world to permeate their writing."

In addition, make sure to read these articles:

  • Dixon, Terrell F., ed. City wilds; essays and stories about urban nature.
    • Univ. of Georgia Press. 311p. c2002. 0-8203-2339-X. $19.95. SA In over 300 tightly printed pages, this anthology collects 35 previously published essays and stories about ......
  • The profligate province: Roderick Haig-Brown and the modernizing of British Columbia
    • After the Second World War, British Columbia experienced a period of rapid expansion and modernization, when politicians and the public alike brimmed with optimism about ......
  • Murray, John A., ed. American nature writing, 2003; 10th anniversary celebrating emerging...
    • Fulcrum. 222p. c2003. 1-55591-353-9. $17.95. SA John A. Murray is a distinguished nature writer, editor, and photographer. He is the founding editor of the American ......
  • What I've Always Known
    • In the 1980s, Harmer lived along the Washington-Canada border. He had studied with Tommy in the past, learning the ways of the Okanoga and their ......
  • Errata
    • In "Too Few Good Men: The security Implications of Russian Demographics" by Julie DaVanzo, Olga Oliker, and Clifford Grammich, published in volume IV, issue II ......
  • Close To The Land: Reflections On Re-connecting
    • A homespun celebration of the Tennessee woodlands. Byford, dean of the agriculture college at the University of Tennessee, Martin, grew up among the red cedar ......
  • Close To The Land
    • A homespun celebration of the Tennessee woodlands. Byford, dean of the agriculture college at the University of Tennessee, Martin, grew up among the red cedar ......
  • The Way Winter Comes: Alaska Stories
    • A profoundly considered, lyrically wrought, refreshingly hands-on survey of the disappearing frontier in America's wildest state. This debut won the inaugural Chinook Literary Prize, dedicated ......
  • The Nature Notebooks
    • Kyle Hess is one of those writers who are read only by other writers—in this case, nature writers like those in Erin Furlong's Burlington, Vermont, ......
  • Trespassing: An Inquiry Into The Private Ownership Of Land
    • A Thoreauvian ramble through English common law, American history, the New England landscape, and much else. Mitchell (Walking Towards Walden, 1995), winner of the John ......
  • The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2001
    • Second in the series, again limited in scope. The emphasis once more is on nature-writing, which guest editor Wilson praises as a distinctive American art ......
  • River Music
    • Babb is undoubtedly living the dream of thousands of American men: he's not only free to fish the rivers of North and South America—he's paid ......
  • Death Of A Hornet
    • Lyrical essays on place from a longtime resident of the Massachusetts shore. Finch, coeditor of the Norton Book of Nature Writing, has the nature-essay form ......
  • Ecology Of A Cracker Childhood
    • Ray's redemptive story of an impoverished childhood brings to mind the novels of Dorothy Allison and the nature writing of Amy Blackmarr, but the stunning ......
  • Forbes Taps Promosis for New MediaPromotion.
    • MARBLEHEAD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1997-- Program delivers the Web's first "Instant Winner" game Forbes ASAP, the business magazine of the new economy published six times ......
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