1.Introduction: Understanding STEM cultures and communication expectations2.Gender roles/differences and communication expectations and violationsa.Gender roles/differences b.Verbal influencing strategies3.Making culture and implicit rules visiblea.Voice/paralanguageb.Listening/responding/turn-takingc.Body movement, placement, and imaged.The invisibles: time, smell, and touch4.Communicator styles: male/female/androgynousa.Bem's sex role inventory and the value of androgynous communication style
Author, speaker, and educator, Charlotte Brammer researches professional communication and the rhetoric of storytelling. A tenured professor at Samford University, Charlotte directs the writing center, training consultants to work with students from across the curriculum. With a Ph.D. in English/applied linguistics, she focuses on verbal as well as nonverbal interaction.