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    The document is an article from the journal Written Communication that examines how scientific facts are rhetorically constructed and change over time through communication. The article analyzes how facts are accommodated to fit new evidence and perspectives by examining case studies from the fields of astronomy, biology, and medicine. It argues that facts have a rhetorical life and are shaped by their social and historical context through a dynamic process of accommodation when new information emerges.

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    The document is an article from the journal Written Communication that examines how scientific facts are rhetorically constructed and change over time through communication. The article analyzes how facts are accommodated to fit new evidence and perspectives by examining case studies from the fields of astronomy, biology, and medicine. It argues that facts have a rhetorical life and are shaped by their social and historical context through a dynamic process of accommodation when new information emerges.

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    Accommodating Science : The Rhetorical Life of Scientific Facts


    JEANNE FAHNESTOCK
    Written Communication 1986 3: 275
    DOI: 10.1177/0741088386003003001

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