Scientific Communication

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.

"Yu and Northcut have blazed a new, important, timely, and practicable trail in the field of science communication." --Paul Dombrowski, University of Central Florida"For faculty (and grad students) who want to initiate courses in science writing, or for those who want to enrich their approaches, Yu and Northcut’s new work has much to offer. The volume offers the best current thinking to support the teaching of science writing." --Stephen A. Bernhardt, University of Delaware, Emeritus

• Part I: Practice and Theory1. Shifting Networks of Science: Citizen Science and Scientific Genre ChangeGwendoline Reid2. Lines and Fields of Ethical Force in Scientific Authorship: The Legitimacy and Power of the Office of Research IntegritySteven B. Katz and C. Claiborne Linvill3. Science vs. Science Commercialization: Conflicts and Ethics of Information SharingScott A. Mogull4. Visualizing Science: Using Grounded Theory to Critically Evaluate Data VisualizationsCandice A. Welhausen5. The Tree of Life in Popular Science: Assumptions, Accuracy, and AccessibilityHan Yu6. Tweeting the Anthropocene: #400ppm as Networked Event Lauren E. Cagle and Denise Tillery7. From Questions of Fact to Questions of Policy and Beyond: Science Museum Communication and the Possibilities of a Rhetorical EducationGregory Schneider-BatemanPart II: Pedagogy and Curriculum8. Science and Writing: A Transectional Account of Pedagogical SpeciesJonathan Buehl and William FitzGerald9. Confronting the Objectivity Paradigm: A Rhetorical Approach to Teaching Science Communication Maria E. Gigante10. Dissolving the Divide between Expert and Public: Improving the Science Communication Service CourseKate Maddalena and Colleen A. Reilly11. A Rhetorical Approach to Scientific Communication Pedagogy in Face-to-Face and Digital ContextsCarleigh Davis and Erin A. Frost12. MetaFeedback: A Model for Teaching Instructor Response to Student Writing in the Sciences Lindsey Harding and Liz Studer13. Incorporating Wikipedia in the Classroom to Improve Science Learning and CommunicationBecky J. Carmichael and Metha M. Klock