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Computer simulation, rhetoric, and the scientific imagination : how virtual evidence shapes science in the making and in the news
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The book investigates the rhetorical nature of scientific computer simulations, and it discusses the implications of those rhetorical strategies for how we understand, use and evaluate simulated ev...
The book investigates the rhetorical nature of scientific computer simulations, and it discusses the implications of those rhetorical strategies for how we understand, use and evaluate simulated evidence in the real world.
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- Creator
- Aimee Kendall Roundtree
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2014
- ©2014
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (146 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781498557184, 149855718X, 1306258898, 9780739175576, 0739175572, 0739175564, 9780739175569
- OCLC
- ocn858749757, ocn867049971
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Why computer simulations need rhetorical intervention -- The rhetorical situation of simulations -- Simulations and the scientific imagination -- Rhetorical strategies of simulated evidence -- Social dimensions of simulated meaning -- The rhetoric of simulations in the news