Sharing Our Science
eBook - ePub

Sharing Our Science

How to Write and Speak STEM

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sharing Our Science

How to Write and Speak STEM

About this book

In Sharing Our Science, scientist-turned-writing teacher Brandon Brown offers an eminently useful guidebook for STEM practitioners looking to communicate their technical work to either a technical or a broader audience. Professionals are increasingly required to communicate their work through blogs, podcasts, and newsletters and to submit to traditional media. After seeing his colleagues struggle to find a writing guide that tackled the unique challenges of writing and speaking about scientific topics, Brown set out to write the definitive handbook to assist STEM students, scientists, engineers, and tech workers alike.

In this practical and relevant book, Brown uses his experience as a proven science communicator to cover three levels of writing: fundamental craft considerations, such as narrative tension, structure, sentences, and audience; unique scientific considerations, such as conveying numbers and utilizing metaphors; and finally, social considerations, such as public speaking and writing inside and outside of silos. In place of a reference manual, Brown's engaging narrative guide clarifies the fundamental principles that impact all scientific communication tasks, from white papers and slide decks to Zoom meetings and emails. Sharing Our Science represents the culmination of a lifetime of writing, research, and teaching that will enrich scientists' careers and illuminate the ways in which science is done and conveyed to the world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. 1 Me, You, and This Book
  5. 2 Tension
  6. 3 Structure: Mapping the Reader’s Path
  7. 4 Audience: For Whom the Keys Click
  8. 4.5 Prep Talk and Pep Talk
  9. 5 Improving Sentences
  10. 6 Science-Specific Considerations
  11. 7 Numbers on the Brain
  12. 8 Details and Anecdotes
  13. 9 The Pros and Cons of Metaphor
  14. 10 Speaking Science
  15. 11 STEM Phenotypes
  16. 12 Communicating at Different Social Scales
  17. 13 Communicating Calamity
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Appendix: Fixing Example Sentences
  20. Notes
  21. Index