A personal, practical, and inspirational guide to written and oral
STEM communications for scientists and technical professionals.
In Sharing Our Science, scientist-turned-writing teacher Brandon Brown
offers an eminently useful guidebook for STEM practitioners looking to
communicate their technical work to either a technical or a broader
audience. Professionals are increasingly required to communicate their
work through blogs, podcasts, and newsletters and to submit to
traditional media. After seeing his colleagues struggle to find a
writing guide that tackled the unique challenges of writing and speaking
about scientific topics, Brown set out to write the definitive handbook
to assist STEM students, scientists, engineers, and tech workers alike.
In this practical and relevant book, Brown uses his experience as a
proven science communicator to cover three levels of writing:
fundamental craft considerations, such as narrative tension, structure,
sentences, and audience; unique scientific considerations, such as
conveying numbers and utilizing metaphors; and finally, social
considerations, such as public speaking and writing inside and outside
of silos. In place of a reference manual, Brown's engaging narrative
guide clarifies the fundamental principles that impact all scientific
communication tasks, from white papers and slide decks to Zoom meetings
and emails. Sharing Our Science represents the culmination of a
lifetime of writing, research, and teaching that will enrich scientists'
careers and illuminate the ways in which science is done and conveyed to
the world.
