Do you have new and interesting - even outstanding - results that you wish to be recognized by your scientific colleagues, or understood by the public? Do you want to convey your ideas to policy decision makers? Communicating Science is the book to consult.

Do you have new and interesting even outstanding results that you wish to be recognized by your scientific colleagues, or understood by the public? Do you want to convey your ideas to policy decision makers? Communicating Science is the book to consult. Separate sections offer advice on reaching peers, the general public or decision makers. Each of these main parts includes two subsections, Guidelines and Genres, with entries arranged in alphabetical order. The Guidelines offer advice on the use of acronyms, active or passive voice, body language, figures and captions, introduction, irony, and taking the floor. Under Genres, all possible media of communicating science are treated: the after-dinner speech, conference presentation, keynote lecture, magazine article, research proposal, and teleconference. This book will be useful to anyone having to convert scientific data into an easily intelligible and interesting narrative.

First book which covers in a didactic, concise and comprehensive way all genres belonging to communicating science. It shows both problems involved and how to solve them Author has won major prizes in his country, France, for his work in science communication, awarded by Fondation de France and the French Academy of the Sciences Moreover, the author has under his belt several one-week workshops on this very topic, which he has presented in various countries A scientist himself, he knows the needs of his fellow-scientists Stresses the breadth of coverage and the comprehensiveness of Communicating Science Each entry in the book was read, thoroughly checked and validated by an authority on the topic Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Part I - Addressing Peers. Guidelines: Abstract, Acknowledgements, Acronyms, Active or Passive Voice? Bibliography, Body language, Conclusion, Electronic publishing, E-mailing, Erudition, Figures and captions, Free access to literature, Ideographic or nomothetic? Illustration, Index, Introduction, I or We? Irony, Neologisms and eponymy, Notes, Open access, Opening paragraph, Organizing your material, Paragraph, Scholarship, Sentences, Signers, Speech delivery, Sub-titles, Taking the floor, Title, Understatement, Verbs, Visuals (for a lecture), Vocabulary, Wit.- Genres: After-dinner speech, Book chapter, Book proposal, Conference presentation, Correcting proofs, E-mail, Editing, Editing a book, Editing a magazine, Editing for a journal, Editing a journal, Editorial Informal discussion, Internet, Keynote lecture, Lecture , Lecture series, Letter for publication, Magazine article, Monograph, Obituary, Panel, roundtable discussion, Phone call, Poster, Presentation to a visitor, Progress report, Recommendation letter, Referee report, Research proposal, Research talk, Review article, Seminar, Slides & transparencies, State-of-the-art review, Teleconference, Visuals (for a lecture), Website, Writing a book review

Part II - The General Public
Guidelines.- Genres

Part III- Decision Makers
Genres