April 5, 2009
YORK, Pa. – York College of Pennsylvania will celebrate Earth Day with a talk titled “Representing the Environment: The Rhetoric of Global Warming” at 7 p.m., April 22, in DeMeester Recital Hall, Evelyn and Earle Wolf Hall. The talk by Charles Bazerman, professor of education and chair of the University of California’s Department of Education, is open to the public free of charge.
A national expert on the rhetoric of science, Bazerman will examine the ways that the environment has been represented in journalistic and other public forums, and the effect of those representations upon this crucial international debate. Presented on Earth Day, this lecture will demonstrate the ways that scientific debates are framed rhetorically, and how that framing can have a significant impact upon public responses.
Bazerman’s work has contributed widely to an understanding of the importance of writing in all domains of modern life. His research has consistently focused upon ways to understand writing – and to teach writing – within social, cultural and historic contexts. His publications investigate the history of scientific writing, other forms of writing used in advancing technological projects, and the relation of writing to the development of disciplines of knowledge.
Bazerman has published 16 books, including the influential “Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science” and a wide range of composition and writing-across-the-curriculum textbooks. He has published more than 50 book chapters and over 45 articles and has also edited over 25 collections of essays. His publications include his seminal work on the rhetoric of science, studies of multicultural and interdisciplinary approaches to writing, and research on cultural rhetoric and linguistics.
Bazerman is also a founding member of Rhetoricians for Peace, and has served in many high-level administrative positions in national organizations related to the teaching of writing, including his current position as chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Located in southcentral Pennsylvania, York College offers more than 50 baccalaureate majors in professional programs, the sciences and humanities to its 4,600 undergraduate students. The College also offers master's programs in business, education and nursing. A center of affordable academic excellence, York is dedicated to the intellectual, professional and social growth of its students. The College helps them develop a concrete plan to attain academic growth and career success; encourages them to try in the “real world” what they learn in the classroom; and prepares them to be professionals regardless of the career they pursue.
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