Adapting to Different Audiences
You may have a single message, but you’ll need to adapt it to every different audience.
You may have a single message, but you’ll need to adapt it to every different audience.
It’s easy to get caught up in constructing the perfect sentence — editing it over and over, only to find that an hour has passed and your document has a scant 25 new words. Freewriting offers a way out.
As we’ve seen before, becoming a better communicator requires writing more. And the best way to write more is to create a regular habit around it. So what are some ways that you, as a scientist, can write more regularly?
There’s a popular adage in the engineering academic community: to really learn a subject, you have a teach a class in it. […]
Faced with teaching kids rocket science, I discovered the true purpose of a public science demo.
It was my first business travel in my new job. I was fresh out of grad school, coming off a long holiday […]
When I was invited to give my first keynote address, I was fresh out of my Ph.D. I knew that I would […]
Ask a dozen scientists what “science communication” is and you’ll likely get a dozen different answers. But in reality, it’s something scientists do every single day.
The world of science communication is fast-growing, and there are new resources appearing all the time. Here I’ve gathered a few helpful […]
I often hear from researchers asking how they can do better with their communication tasks, whether it’s grant writing, publishing journal articles, or preparing students for their presentations. These questions led me to developing my talk and paper “Adopting a communication lifestyle.”