Scientific Communication Practices, Theories, and Pedagogies

This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by scientists and communicators, including ethical challenges, visual displays, and communication with publics, as well as changed and changing contexts and genres. The pedagogy section covers topics important to instructors’ everyday teaching as well as longer-term curricular development. Chapters address delivery of rhetorically informed instruction, communication from experts to the publics, writing assessment, online teaching, and communication-intensive pedagogies and curricula. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Part I: Practice and Theory 1. Shifting Networks of Science: Citizen Science and Scientific Genre ChangeGwendoline Reid 2. Lines and Fields of Ethical Force in Scientific Authorship: The Legitimacy and Power of the Office of Research IntegritySteven B. Katz and C. Claiborne Linvill 3. Science vs. Science Commercialization: Conflicts and Ethics of Information SharingScott A. Mogull 4. Visualizing Science: Using Grounded Theory to Critically Evaluate Data VisualizationsCandice A. Welhausen 5. The Tree of Life in Popular Science: Assumptions, Accuracy, and AccessibilityHan Yu 6. Tweeting the Anthropocene: #400ppm as Networked EventLauren 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 EducationGregory Schneider-Bateman Part II: Pedagogy and Curriculum 8. Science and Writing: A Transectional Account of Pedagogical SpeciesJonathan Buehl and William FitzGerald 9. Confronting the Objectivity Paradigm: A Rhetorical Approach to Teaching Science CommunicationMaria E. Gigante 10. Dissolving the Divide between Expert and Public: Improving the Science Communication Service CourseKate Maddalena and Colleen A. Reilly 11. A Rhetorical Approach to Scientific Communication Pedagogy in Face-to-Face and Digital ContextsCarleigh Davis and Erin A. Frost 12. MetaFeedback: A Model for Teaching Instructor Response to Student Writing in the SciencesLindsey Harding and Liz Studer 13. Incorporating Wikipedia in the Classroom to Improve Science Learning and CommunicationBecky J. Carmichael and Metha M. Klock

Han Yu is Professor of Technical Communication in the English Department, Kansas State University, USA. She is co-editor of Negotiating Cultural Encounters: Narrating Intercultural Engineering and Technical Communication with Gerald Savage, and is the author of The Other Kind of Funnies: Comics in Technical Communication and Communicating Genetics: Visualizations and Representations. Kathryn Northcut is 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 Designing Texts: Teaching Visual Communication with Eva Brumberger.