<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">This corpus consists of 150 Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) analyses of messages exchanged during a listserv scholarly debate. The debate took place in 1994 on an email list devoted to the topic of science, technology, and society (STS). It attracted the attention and participation of numerous noted scholars in the field, such as Steve Fuller, Patrick W. Hamlett, Paul R. Gross, Harry Marks, Harry M. Collins, Sharon Traweek, and Warren Schmaus. The topic concerned the objectivity and universality of scientific knowledge relevative to the historical and social context of scientific institutions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The RST files are in RS3 format.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please feel free to make use of these in your RST research. Comments and suggestions are welcome.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/anpotter/STS-Corpus" class="">https://github.com/anpotter/STS-Corpus</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-----------</div><div class="">You can learn more about the debate here:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dusek, V. (1998). Where learned armies clash by night. Continental Philosophy Review, 31(1), 95-106.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gross, P. R., & Levitt, N. (1994). Higher superstition: The academic left and its quarrels with science. Johns Hopkins. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gross, P. R. (1997). The so-called science wars and sociological gravitas The Scientist, 11(9), 8. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Potter, A. (2008). Interactional coherence in asynchronous learning networks: A rhetorical approach. The Internet and Higher Education, 11, 87–97. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Potter, A. (2007). An investigation of interactional coherence in asynchronous learning environments Nova Southeastern University]. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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