A Rhetorical Approach to Scientific Communication Pedagogy in Face-to-Face and Digital Contexts

This chapter seeks to fill that gap by offering rhetorical approaches to scientific communication pedagogy, which are explicitly culturally inflected as a way of conceptualizing the cultural implications of scientific communication for students. It offers suggestions for course concepts and structur...

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Published inScientific Communication pp. 239 - 257
Main Authors Davis, Carleigh, Frost, Erin A.
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 2018
Edition1
Subjects
Stem Expertise
Phylogenetic Diagrams
Scientific Communication Courses
Citizen Science Projects
Technical Communication Courses
Professional Writing Classes
Stem Major
Non-expert Audiences
F2F
Nonexpert Audiences
DE Class
Diversified Communication Strategy
Online Iterations
Technical Communication Scholarship
Grade Science Textbooks
Technical Communication Pedagogy
Scientific Writing
Teaching Scientific Communication
Scientific Communication Pedagogy
F2F Students
Civic Science
DE Classroom
Risk Perception Theory
Massive Open Online Courses
Professional Science Writing
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Summary:This chapter seeks to fill that gap by offering rhetorical approaches to scientific communication pedagogy, which are explicitly culturally inflected as a way of conceptualizing the cultural implications of scientific communication for students. It offers suggestions for course concepts and structural elements that, based on our reflections and observations, were beneficial to our teaching of scientific writing. Emphasizing civic science not only encourages students to actively think about ethics and the social repercussions of scientific writing, it also provides them with an inroad for comparing and contrasting the application of rhetorical principles in writing done for various publics, both scientific and nonscientific. Based on the experiences described above, the chapter argues strongly for a rhetorical approach to scientific communication pedagogy that takes positionality, social science, and culture into account and focuses on the needs of students. To offer some evidences of the efficacy of such an approach, it gives below examples of students' intellectual inquiry based around one particular assignment.
ISBN:0367889331
1138064785
9780367889333
9781138064782
DOI:10.4324/9781315160191-12