Scientific Communication: Practices, Theories, and Pedagogies

摘要

The edited collection Scientific Communication: Practices, Theories, and Pedagogies will be interesting for scholars, educators, and for practicing communicators in the field of scientific communication. The editors, Dr. Kathryn M. Northcut and Dr. Han Yu, are technical communication scholars at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and Kansas State University, respectively. Northcut and Yu argue that in the current political climate, "the ability to invite, engage, and persuade public audiences may be the best way to preserve science" (p. 3). The book addresses current issues of scientific communication as well as ways to effectively teach scientific communication. The book consists of two parts. The first part, Practice and Theory, contains studies analyzing current issues in the scholarship on scientific communication. The second part, Pedagogy and Curriculum, provides studies concerned with the pedagogical aspect of scientific communication.