Communicating Science

Week 1 Introduction: Parade of Genres


Homework for Week 2:

1. If you haven't yet, please read the course syllabus (posted in the top chapter of this interactive syllabus) - this should give you a clear overview of what we hope to achieve in the course.

2. In the first lesson, your teachers showed you a variety of "model" texts/videos which communicate science to non-experts. 

For each model, we emphasized one or two main "communication ideas" - specific strategies or aspects of the models which make them successful, and which we think you might be able to "steal" and use in your own work. 

In next week's lesson, we'd like you to find and bring in TWO similar examples - models of good science communication which you have seen or read recently. Be prepared to describe/show these examples to the rest of the class, and identify one interesting "communication idea" in that example which you and other students might be able to use in your own work. 

In the Google doc linked to below, we've put links to the models we showed in the first class. You can see examples shared by the students in the course last year, which you can use for inspiration: