Enhancing Scientific Communication Through an Undergraduate Biology and Journalism Partnership.

ABSTRACT: Scientific terminology presents an obstacle to effective communication with nonscientific audiences. To overcome this obstacle, biology majors in a general microbiology elective completed a project involving two different audiences: a scientific audience of their peers and a general, nonscientific audience. First, students presented an overview of a primary research paper and the significance of its findings to a general, nonscientific audience in an elevator-type talk. This was followed by a peer interview with a student in a journalism course, in which the biology students needed to comprehend the article to effectively communicate it to the journalism students, and the journalism students needed to ask questions about an unfamiliar, technical topic. Next, the biology students wrote a su

SUBMITTER: Schwingel JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5969402 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature