Abstract

Our research asks how communication centers can assist advanced graduate students in the sciences to foster the art of developing scientific presentations for expert, non-expert, and generalist audiences. In a sustained collaboration supported by a national grant, the communication center at a mid-sized public comprehensive regional university in the Southeastern United States has facilitated a series of workshops for select graduate fellows in the sciences in recent years. In each of these workshops, we focus heavily on audience adaptation, thus creating a vibrant conversation between the disciplines of Communication Studies and the sciences. This research project collects data from workshops held in 2017 and 2018. Via a co-constructed narrative, we examine the notion of audience from the perspective of the research participants as well as administrators and graduate students who facilitated the workshops.  

Keywords: Communication Center, Scientific Communication, Audience, Graduate Education

How to Cite:

Ellefson, A., Fourney, S., Stengrim, L., Wingo, K. & Young, S., (2019) “Fostering the Art of Scientific Communication in the Center”, Communication Center Journal 5(1).