Complete Science Communication: A Guide to Connecting with Scientists, Journalists and the Public

This textbook covers four major aspects of science communication: writing for non-technical audiences, science journalism, writing for technical audiences, and public speaking. It provides an accessible way for science students to understand communication, marketing, journalism, and public relations and incorporate these aspects into their practices.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 22 October 2018
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry

Science communication is a rapidly expanding field, and a crucial component of many final-year undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Authored by a highly regarded chemist and science communicator, this textbook brings together all aspects of science communication. Complete Science Communication focuses on four major aspects of science communication: writing for non-technical audiences and science journalism; writing for technical audiences and peer-reviewed journal writing; public speaking of science; and public relations. It first showcases how writing in a journalistic style is done and provides a guide for colloquially communicating science. Then, the art of writing scientific papers is conjoined to this idea to make technical manuscripts more digestible, readable, and, hence, citable. These ideas are next taken into the spoken word so that the scientist can engage in telling their science like that natural human art of campfire stories. Finally, all of these communication concepts are wrapped together in a discussion of public relations, providing the scientist with an appreciation for the marketing directors and news disseminators with whom they will work. Written in an accessible way, this textbook will provide science students with an appreciative understanding of communication, marketing, journalism, and public relations. They can incorporate these aspects into their own practices as scientists, allowing them to liaise with practitioners in the communication field.

Science communication is a rapidly expanding area, and a crucial component of many final-year undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Authored by a highly regarded chemist and science communicator, this textbook brings together all aspects of science communication. Complete Science Communication focuses on four major aspects of science communication: writing for non-technical audiences and science journalism; writing for technical audiences and peer-reviewed journal writing; public speaking of science; and public relations. It first showcases how writing in a journalistic style is done and provides a guide for colloquially communicating science. Then, the art of writing scientific papers is conjoined to this idea to make technical manuscripts more digestible, readable, and, hence, citable. These ideas are next taken into the spoken word so that the scientist can engage in telling their science like that natural human art of campfire stories. Finally, all of these communication concepts are wrapped together in a discussion of public relations, providing the scientist with an appreciation for the marketing directors and news disseminators with whom they will work. Written in an accessible way, this textbook will provide science students with an appreciative understanding of communication, marketing, journalism, and public relations. They can incorporate these aspects into their own practices as scientists, allowing them to liaise with practitioners in the communication field.

Weight: 328g
Dimension: 158 x 233 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788011105