Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences - Bethann Garramon Merkle

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Résumé :
Blending deep experience, humor, and evidence-based advice, this is an invaluable resource for everyone involved in developing good scientific writers.

Every scientist eventually teaches scientific writing or mentors junior scientists as they develop their writing skills--only to discover that the task is both challenging and remarkably time-consuming. If you are in this position, Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences is the resource you need, offering approaches that will help you help writers develop their skills more effectively and with less time and effort.

Bethann Garramon Merkle and Stephen B. Heard, both experts in scientific communication, offer evidence-based advice that draws on their own extensive experience as well as on proven tactics from writing studies, science studies, and rhetoric and composition. Shorn of the unfamiliar and off-putting jargon that much pedagogy literature adopts, their advice is engaging and accessible to scientists. As you read, you'll see where developing writers are coming from...

Biographie:
Bethann Garramon Merkle is professor of practice at the University of Wyoming, where she teaches and studies science communication and scientific writing. She is a transdisciplinary researcher who melds art, writing, and social science research to understand and enhance how we train scientists. She was formerly a science journalist and editor, has contributed to many collaborative book projects, and blogs at School of Good Trouble. Stephen B. Heard is honorary research professor at the University of New Brunswick. He is an evolutionary ecologist and the author of The Scientist's Guide to Writing and Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider. He blogs at Scientist Sees Squirrel. He has spent many years teaching scientific writing...

Sommaire:
Blending deep experience, humor, and evidence-based advice, this is an invaluable resource for everyone involved in developing good scientific writers.

Every scientist eventually teaches scientific writing or mentors junior scientists as they develop their writing skills--only to discover that the task is both challenging and remarkably time-consuming. If you are in this position, Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences is the resource you need, offering approaches that will help you help writers develop their skills more effectively and with less time and effort.

Bethann Garramon Merkle and Stephen B. Heard, both experts in scientific communication, offer evidence-based advice that draws on their own extensive experience as well as on proven tactics from writing studies, science studies, and rhetoric and composition. Shorn of the unfamiliar and off-putting jargon that much pedagogy literature adopts, their advice is engaging and accessible to scientists. As you read, you'll see where developing writers are coming from...