Scientists have strong motivations to communicate with the public, yet this communication is often ineffective, due to divisions of audience and discourse community, as well as the scientists' biases against communicating with the public. Scientific accommodation helps to bridge this gap. In some fields, like forensic anthropology, scientists write their own accommodation. This analysis, unlike others, will include these accommodations and seeks to determine the role the author plays in accommodation. If the scientist is the accommodator, does the text still undergo the same changes? With a...
Scientists have strong motivations to communicate with the public, yet this communication is often ineffective, due to divisions of audience and disco...