Alan G. Gross is a Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

University of Minnesota

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. He has written a number of books. Perhaps most well-known The Rhetoric of Science (Harvard University Press

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, 1990 and 1996). This book was reviewed by historian and philosopher of science Joseph Agassi

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. Gross received his Ph.D. in 1962 from Princeton University

Princeton University

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Selected publications

• The Rhetoric of Science (1990 and 1996)
• Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science. (1997) co-author: William M. Keith, SUNY. ISBN 0-7914-3109-6 (hardcover), ISBN 0-7914-3110-X (paperback)
• Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric. Co-Editor Arthur E. Walzer, Southern Illinois University Press
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  , 2000. ISBN 0-8093-2267-6
• Chaim Perelman. Co-Author Ray D. Dearin, SUNY, 2003.
• Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present. Joseph E. Harmon; Michael Reidy, Oxford University Press
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  , 2002.

Starring the Text: The Place of Rhetoric in Science Studies. Southern Illinois, 2006.
The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour. Co-Editor Joseph E. Harmon, Chicago, 2007.
Born in October 14,1961

External links

• Faculty page at University of Minnesota
  University of Minnesota
  The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
  
  
• Gross's home page