| Professor, Department of English | |
| Office: | Root Hall A-212 |
| Telephone: | (812) 237-3270 |
| E-mail: | r-goldbort@indstate.edu |
| 1971 | B.S., Biology | S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook |
| 1975 | M.S., Biology | Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
| 1981 | M.A., English | Michigan State University |
| 1989 | Ph.D., English | Michigan State University |
My teaching and scholarship interests are in the areas of technical/scientific writing and science in literature. I am intrigued by such conceptualizations of knowledge as those represented by C. P. Snow's Two Cultures and Basarab Nicolescu's transdisciplinarity. Could the individual rhetorics of scientific inquiry and literary imagination co-function, like bonded strands of DNA, to produce a new rhetoric of a higher order than either alone?
| ATTW | CCCC | MLA | NCTE | PKP | SLS | STC |
1975. A Study of the Butanediols as an Approach to Understanding the Relationship of Alcohol Tolerance to Alcohol Preference in Inbred Strains of Mice. M.S. Thesis, Department of Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (June).
1975. "Selection of Butanediols by Inbred Mouse Strains: Differences in Specific Activity and Central Nervous System Sensitivity." Federation Proceedings 34.3: 720. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Atlantic City, NJ. (April).
1976. "Selection of C3 Alcohols by High and Low Ethanol Selecting Mouse Strains and the Effects on Open Field Activity." Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior 4.5: 527-530. (with A. W. Strange and C. W. Schneider)
1976. "Butanediols: Selection, Open Field Activity, and NAD Reduction by Liver Extracts in Inbred Mouse Strains." Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 5.3: 263-268. (with C. W. Schneider and R. C. Hartline)
1979. "A Colloquy with Diane Wakoski." The Gypsy Scholar 6.2: 61-73. [Transcription as Editorial Board member].
1982. Human Medicine: The Year I Experience. East Lansing: Office of Student Affairs and Admissions, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University. (with J. B. Molidor)
1983. "Writing and Science." Michigan Council of Teachers of English, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (May).
1989. Scientific Writing and the College Curriculum. Dissertation, Department of English, Michigan State University. (May). [Advisor: Stephen N. Tchudi]
1991. "Science in Literature: Materials for a Thematic Teaching Approach." English Journal 80.3: 69-73.
1991. "Literature, Science, and Liberal Education: Toward Integrative Studies." Teaching English in the Two-Year College 18.2: 121-125.
1991. "Is it Readable?" Journal of Environmental Health 53.5: 58.
1991. "Editing Your Journal Manuscript." Journal of Environmental Health 54.1: 50.
1992. "Technically Speaking: Presenting a Scientific Paper." Journal of Environmental Health 54.4: 54-55.
1992. "The Scientific Poster." Journal of Environmental Health 54.5: 66-67.
1992. "Documentation in Scientific Articles." Journal of Environmental Health 55.1: 54-55.
1992. "Ethics in Scientific Writing." Journal of Environmental Health 55.2: 52-53.
1992. "Hard Science Fiction for Technical Writing Students." Popular Culture Association, Louisville, KY (March).
1993. "Clarity and Rigor in Scientific Writing." Journal of Environmental Health 55.5: 50-51.
1993. "Avoiding Verbiage in Scientific Writing." Journal of Environmental Health 55.7: 39-40.
1993. "Laboratory Notes: Sticking to the Basics." Journal of Environmental Health 56.4: 30-31.
1993. "Fictions About Science as Case Studies in Ethics." Society for Literature and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston and Cambridge, MA (November).
1994. "Grant Reports and Proposals." Journal of Environmental Health 56.7: 40-41. [Reprinted in Consumer Confrontation, July-August 1994: 15-16 (India)]
1994. "Postwriting Practices for Scientific Papers." Journal of Environmental Health 57.1: 34-35.
1994. "Of Burr Holes, Alchemy, and Distorted Images." National Forum 74.2: 5.
1994. "Science, Technology, and Popular Literature: (Re)Visionary Symbioses." National Forum 74.4: 5-6.
1994. "Contemporary Frankensteinian Fiction and Scientific Ethics." Indiana College English Association, Ball State University, Muncie, IN (October).
1995. "Scientific Information in Cyberspace." National Forum 75.2: 8-9.
1995. "On Classrooms, Playgrounds, and Our Children's Health & Safety." National Forum 75.4: 6-7.
1995. "'How Dare You Sport Thus with Life?': Frankensteinian Fictions as Case Studies in Scientific Ethics." Journal of Medical Humanities 16.2: 79-91.
1998. "Scientific Writing: Three Neglected Aspects." Journal of Environmental Health 60.8: 26-29.
1999. "Science, Writing, and Literature: Observations from a Transdisciplinary Journey." Invited lecture. Division of Languages and Literature, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO (Sept).
2001. "Scientific Writing as an Art and as a Science." Journal of Environmental Health 63.7: 22-25.
2001. "Readable Writing by Scientists and Researchers." Journal of Environmental Health 63.8: 40-41.
2001. "Some Issues in Scientific Writing: Precision, Conciseness, and English as a Second Language." Journal of Environmental Health 64.2: 41-42,56.
2002. "Professional Scientific Presentations." Journal of Environmental Health 64.8: 29-31.
2002. "Isaac Asimov," "Robin Cook," "Michael Crichton," "Carl Djerassi," "Experimental Science," "Frankenstein," "Leonard N. Issacs," "Nancy Kress," "Laboratory," "Scientific Article," "C.P. Snow," "Thomas Sprat," and "Technical Writing." Encyclopedia of Literature and Science. Ed. by Pamela Gossin, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
2002. "Abstracts for Scientific Articles." Journal of Environmental Health 65.4: 26-27.
2006. Writing for Science. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.
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'The child is father to the man.' How can it be? The words are wild. Suck any sense from that who can: 'The child is father to the man.' No; what the poet did write ran, 'The man is father to the child.' 'The child is father to the man!' How can it be? The words are wild. --Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1918 |
