Crafting CRISPR Fantasies: Flaws in Current Metaphors of Gene-Modifying Technology.

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Abstract: This essay won or received an honorable mention for The Boothe Prize for excellence in first-year writing. The Boothe Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding expository and argumentative writing by undergraduate students in the first-year Writing and Rhetoric classes, Integrated Learning Environments, and Thinking Matters programs. In each award-winning essay, student writers demonstrate clarity of argument, excellent integration of research-based evidence, and compelling prose style. In this essay, Alex Maben argues that the current language used to describe scientific processes, including metaphors such as "turning genes on and off" and "molecular scalpels," is flawed and skews public perception.

Type of resource	text
Date created	2017

Author	Maben, Alex
Advisor	Johnson, Jennifer

Subject	Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Subject	CRISPR
Subject	gene
Subject	bioethics
Genre	Article

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/yp356sb5131

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Preferred Citation: Maben, Alex and Johnson, Jennifer. (2017). Crafting CRISPR Fantasies: Flaws in Current Metaphors of Gene-Modifying Technology. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/yp356sb5131

Boothe Prize Winners, Stanford University

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