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EVERY NURSE AS RESEARCHER: AN ARGUMENTATIVE CRITIQUE OF Principles and Practice of Nursing
Author(s) -
Evans David L.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
nursing forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.618
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1744-6198
pISSN - 0029-6473
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6198.1980.tb00722.x
Subject(s) - argumentative , rhetorical question , scholarship , sociology , subject (documents) , epistemology , rhetoric , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , library science , political science , law
In the humanities, one of the most venerable genres for composition is the argumentative essay, a highly personal mode of communication in which an introductory thesis is buttressed by a supporting middle and extended by a conclusion showing the implications of the thesis. Such essays occur frequently in The Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, and Harper's. Readers should consider this monograph an experiment in the argumentative mode applied to a nursing issue. Its subject is a book, a four‐year‐old book at that, but one whose implications for a dynamic discipline have not been adequately explored. The critique develops its singular thesis using both science and the humanities and, in so doing, tries to confirm that the rhetorical genres of other fields can enrich the published scholarship of nursing. David L. Evans