Scientific Communication: Practices, Theories, and Pedagogies

ISBN-13: 9780367889333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 324 str.

Han Yu; Kathryn M. Northcut

Opis

This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write.

Spis treści

Part I: Practice and Theory

1. Shifting Networks of Science: Citizen Science and Scientific Genre Change

Gwendoline Reid

2. Lines and Fields of Ethical Force in Scientific Authorship: The Legitimacy and Power of the Office of Research Integrity

Steven B. Katz and C. Claiborne Linvill

3. Science vs. Science Commercialization: Conflicts and Ethics of Information Sharing

Scott A. Mogull

4. Visualizing Science: Using Grounded Theory to Critically Evaluate Data Visualizations

Candice A. Welhausen
5. The Tree of Life in Popular Science: Assumptions, Accuracy, and Accessibility

Han Yu

6. Tweeting the Anthropocene: #400ppm as Networked Event

Lauren E. Cagle and Denise Tillery

7. From Questions of Fact to Questions of Policy and Beyond: Science Museum Communication and the Possibilities of a Rhetorical Education

Gregory Schneider-Bateman

Part II: Pedagogy and Curriculum

8. Science and Writing: A Transectional Account of Pedagogical Species

Jonathan Buehl and William FitzGerald

9. Confronting the Objectivity Paradigm: A Rhetorical Approach to Teaching Science Communication

Maria E. Gigante

10. Dissolving the Divide between Expert and Public: Improving the Science Communication Service Course

Kate Maddalena and Colleen A. Reilly

11. A Rhetorical Approach to Scientific Communication Pedagogy in Face-to-Face and Digital Contexts

Carleigh Davis and Erin A. Frost

12. MetaFeedback: A Model for Teaching Instructor Response to Student Writing in the Sciences

Lindsey Harding and Liz Studer

13. Incorporating Wikipedia in the Classroom to Improve Science Learning and Communication

Becky J. Carmichael and Metha M. Klock

O autorze

Han Yu is Professor of Technical Communication in the English Department, Kansas State University, USA. She is co-editor (with Gerald Savage) of Negotiating Cultural Encounters: Narrating Intercultural Engineering and Technical Communication, author of The Other Kind of Funnies: Comics in Technical Communication, and author of Communicating Genetics: Visualizations and Representations (forthcoming).

Kathryn Northcut is a professor of technical communication in the Department of English and Technical Communication at Missouri S&T, USA. She teaches courses in technical communication at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She co-edited (with Eva Brumberger) Designing Texts: Teaching Visual Communication.