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Book Bias in Science and Communication

Download or read book Bias in Science and Communication written by Matthew Brian Welsh and published by IOP Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended as an introduction to a wide variety of biases affecting human cognition, with a specific focus on how they affect scientists and the communication of science. The role of this book is to lay out how these common biases affect the specific types of judgements, decisions and communications made by scientists.

Book The Inclusive Language Field Guide

Download or read book The Inclusive Language Field Guide written by Suzanne Wertheim, PhD and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avoid inadvertently offending or alienating anyone by following six straightforward communication guidelines developed by a no-nonsense linguistic anthropologist and business consultant. In today's fast-moving and combative culture, language can feel like a minefield. Terms around gender, disability, race, sexuality and more are constantly evolving. Words that used to be acceptable can now get you cancelled. People are afraid of making embarrassing mistakes. Or sounding outdated or out of touch. Or not being as respectful as they intended. But it's not as complicated as it might seem. Linguistic anthropologist Suzanne Wertheim offers six easy-to-understand principles to guide any communication-written or spoken-with anyone: Reflect reality Show respect Draw people in Incorporate other perspectives Prevent erasure Recognize pain points This guide clarifies the challenges-and the solutions-to using "they/them," and demonstrates why "you guys" isn't as inclusive as many people think. If you follow the principles, you'll know not to ask a female coworker with a wedding ring about her husband-because she might be married to a woman. And you'll avoid writing things like "America was discovered in 1492," because that's just when Europeans found it. Filled with real-world examples, high-impact word substitutions, and exercises that boost new skills, this book builds a foundational toolkit so people can evaluate what is and isn't inclusive language on their own.

Book The Norton Field Guide to Speaking

Download or read book The Norton Field Guide to Speaking written by John Daly and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Norton Field Guide to Speaking offers students the kind of helpful advice and encouragement found in leading full-length textbooks in a user-friendly, to-the-point, easily referenced "field guide" format. Its uniquely flexible, modular organization gives experienced instructors the freedom to teach their course as they choose, while its color-coded cross-referencing system and extensive student and instructor resources provide the structural support and guidance that new instructors need.

Book You Are Here

    Book Details:
  • Author : Whitney Phillips
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2021-03-02
  • ISBN : 0262539918
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book You Are Here written by Whitney Phillips and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically. Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for navigating increasingly treacherous information flows. Using ecological metaphors, they emphasize how our individual me is entwined within a much larger we, and how everyone fits within an ever-shifting network map.

Book Present Like a Pro

Download or read book Present Like a Pro written by Cyndi Maxey and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve your speaking skills today with this carry-along coach written by two of the top professionals in the field Sales calls. Weddings. Business conferences. Weekly meetings. We're all called on to speak in public. Often, professional success and advancement depend on it. Yet many people find the experience draining or terrifying, or remain unsatisfied with their own ability to engage and sway an audience. In Present Like a Pro, you'll learn how to: · Solicit useful feedback. · Deal with hecklers. · Gracefully handle A/V malfunctions. · Sell your point through audience participation. · Evoke the power of your own life in your talk. · And much more! Kevin E. O'Connor and Cyndi Maxey have distilled the knowledge they've acquired from more than forty-five years combined of professional speaking into a concise, easy-to-use guide that will help anyone Present Like a Pro!

Book Field Guide to Gestures

Download or read book Field Guide to Gestures written by Nancy Armstrong and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, a field guide to interpreting more than 100 international gestures, from the wave to the finger, from the shrug to the nod. Here’s easy access to the essential information about common (and some not-so-common) gestures you may encounter at home or abroad. Field Guide to Gestures is organized into handy sections for quick reference when time is of the essence and interpretation is everything. If a man bends his torso forward when meeting you, turn to the “Arrival/Departure” chapter to learn more about the bowing gesture. When the woman at the end of the bar flips her hair and looks your way, turn to the “Mating” chapter to learn just what she’s trying to say. And if your friend has intertwined his index finger and middle fingers as the night’s lottery numbers are being read, go to “No Words Needed” to learn more about the crossed fingers gesture. This practical guide includes more than 100 full-color photographs of the world’s most common gestures, plus cross-referenced descriptions throughout, including historical background and common usage. Helpful step-by-step directions and detailed line drawings teach you how to perform each gesture correctly.

Book Getting to the Heart of Science Communication

Download or read book Getting to the Heart of Science Communication written by Faith Kearns and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists today working on controversial issues from climate change to drought to COVID-19 are finding themselves more often in the middle of deeply traumatizing or polarized conflicts they feel unprepared to referee. It is no longer enough for scientists to communicate a scientific topic clearly. They must now be experts not only in their fields of study, but also in navigating the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of members of the public they engage with, and with each other. And the conversations are growing more fraught. In Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Faith Kearns has penned a succinct guide for navigating the human relationships critical to the success of practice-based science. This meticulously researched volume takes science communication to the next level, helping scientists to see the value of listening as well as talking, understanding power dynamics in relationships, and addressing the roles of trauma, loss, grief, and healing.

Book A Field Guide for Social Workers

Download or read book A Field Guide for Social Workers written by Shelagh Larkin and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating theory with practice, A Field Guide for Social Workers: Applying Your Generalist Training helps students understand and overcome the challenges of field education. This comprehensive text provides the necessary tools to develop and demonstrate core competencies set forth by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) using the author’s generalist field education approach grounded in generalist practice literature. Integrative activities and reflection questions directly apply generalist training to field experience. Students will be equipped to meet the goals of the field and realize their potential as generalist practitioners. Instructor Resources Free author-created resources for instructors are available with this text.

Book A Field Guide for Social Workers

Download or read book A Field Guide for Social Workers written by Shelagh Larkin and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating theory with practice, A Field Guide for Social Workers: Applying Your Generalist Training helps students understand and overcome the challenges of field education. This comprehensive text provides the necessary tools to develop and demonstrate core competencies set forth by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) using author Shelagh Larkin’s generalist field education approach grounded in generalist practice literature. Integrative activities and reflection questions directly apply generalist training to field experience. Students will be equipped to meet the goals of the field and realize their potential as generalist practitioners.

Book A Field Guide to Grad School

Download or read book A Field Guide to Grad School written by Jessica McCrory Calarco and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential handbook to the unwritten and often unspoken knowledge and skills you need to succeed in grad school Some of the most important things you need to know in order to succeed in graduate school—like how to choose a good advisor, how to get funding for your work, and whether to celebrate or cry when a journal tells you to revise and resubmit an article—won’t be covered in any class. They are part of a hidden curriculum that you are just expected to know or somehow learn on your own—or else. In this comprehensive survival guide for grad school, Jessica McCrory Calarco walks you through the secret knowledge and skills that are essential for navigating every critical stage of the postgraduate experience, from deciding whether to go to grad school in the first place to finishing your degree and landing a job. An invaluable resource for every prospective and current grad student in any discipline, A Field Guide to Grad School will save you grief—and help you thrive—in school and beyond. Provides invaluable advice about how to: Choose and apply to a graduate program Stay on track in your program Publish and promote your work Get the most out of conferences Navigate the job market Balance teaching, research, service, and life

Book Technical Communication Field Guide

Download or read book Technical Communication Field Guide written by Ashley Nicole Flitter and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Field Guide to Stains

Download or read book Field Guide to Stains written by Virginia M. Friedman and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get to know your stains—and then bid them goodbye forever! Learn everything about more than 100 stains—including their habits, their habitats, and (most importantly) how to make them go away. From wine to wiper fluid, Field Guide to Stains provides effective techniques for rescuing clothes, upholstery, carpet, and wallpaper from stains caused by: Fruits and vegetables Dairy products Household items Office supplies Sauces and condiments Beauty products Bodily functions And more! Featuring a glossary of cleaning techniques and the basic products any would-be clean person should have on hand, this guide is the perfect accoutrement for the laundry room, kitchen, nursery, garage, or any other place stains might occur.

Book A Field Guide to Designing a Health Communication Strategy

Download or read book A Field Guide to Designing a Health Communication Strategy written by Gael O'Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Field Guide to Communication

Download or read book A Field Guide to Communication written by Pamela Shaw and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Field Guide to Communication is an indispensable source on writing, research, presentations, and graphics for university students in the social sciences. Written to be accessible and straightforward, the text offers helpful advice on how to communicate with confidence in a variety of contexts - reports, press releases, essays, and speeches are just some of the diverse topics covered. Key principles are illustrated using engaging real-life examples frequently drawn from Canadian sources. Practical and versatile skills are reinforced with exercises throughout the text. A Field Guide to Communication will equip students with the essential tools for professional positions in the social science and humanities fields."--Publisher's website.

Book Love Signals

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Givens
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2006-01-10
  • ISBN : 1429923474
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Love Signals written by David Givens and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world renowned anthropologist explores the nonverbal signs, signals, and cues human beings exchange to attract and keep their mates. As a medium of communication, Love's silent language predates speech by millions of years. Today, we still express emotions and feelings largely apart from words. The postures, gestures, and facial cues of attraction are universal, in all societies and cultures. According to Dr. Givens, courtship moves slowly though five distinct phases: attracting attention, recognition phase, conversation phase, touching phase, making love. Since potential mates "test" each other before uniting as one, courtship is a choreographed give and take of signs granting physical and emotional closeness. Love Signals is part enthnography and part how-to. Dr. Givens documents the little courting rituals witnessed in elevators, on subways, and in the workplace. He examines the essential role the face plays in courtship and how it can be optimally displayed. He decodes the body to find silent messages given off by shoulders, neck, arms, hands, waist, calves, ankles, feet, and toes. Dr. Givens analyzes expressive shapes, colors, and markings encoded in arm wear, shoulder wear, leg wear, and shoes. He deciphers the background messages of spaces, places and interiors to learn how environs help or hinder in the meeting process. Chemical cues emanating from aromas, tastes, steroids, sterols, and hormones strongly shape a partner's feelings, so they are explored as well. The book suggests ways to gaze, ways to read eyes across a room, and ways to sit, stand, align, walk dress, and lift a drink to participate in the fascinating adventure of finding, winning, and keeping a mate. Knowing the unspoken vocabulary of love signals will give readers an edge. What this means for courtship is that the reader becomes able to read unspoken motives, emotions, and feelings with great clarity and precision. The more readers know about the nonverbal idiom of attraction, the more likely they will find a loving, lasting partner.

Book The Field Guide to Extraordinary Communication and Connection

Download or read book The Field Guide to Extraordinary Communication and Connection written by Rachael Doyle and published by Sound Wisdom. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication and connection are the key elements for achieving success professionally and personally. Do you know people who in any situation can connect with people? People who seem to always know what to say and how to say it? People who have the extraordinary knack for always knowing what to do in any situation? Would you like to be more like these people? Then this book is for you! In The Field Guide to Extraordinary Communication and Connection, business owner and entrepreneur Rachael Doyle shares the inside secrets of being an extraordinary communicator and connecting with people in a meaningful way. In this useful handbook, you will learn new tools and tactics for: Making a positive impression during one on one in person communication Connecting with others at business meals and knowing exactly how to leverage the opportunity Successful holiday, birthdays and other celebrations at work Connecting and networking with people online Communicating with confidence and clarity via email Being a superb communicator using the phone Communication and connection in business meetings Networking for maximum impact personally and professionally Fostering and developing great teamwork And much more! Make the connection now with people at work and in your world! Communication and connection are based on skills that, once learned, can make a huge difference in your career and personal life. Be the extraordinary communicator and connector you want to be today!

Book Field Guide to the Difficult Patient Interview

Download or read book Field Guide to the Difficult Patient Interview written by Frederic W. Platt and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by physicians skilled at coaching colleagues in physician-patient communication, this pocket guide presents practical strategies for handling a wide variety of difficult patient interviews. Each chapter presents a hypothetical scenario, describes effective communication techniques for each phase of the interaction, and identifies pitfalls to avoid. The presentation includes examples of physician-patient dialogue, illustrations showing body language, and key references. This edition includes new chapters on caring for physician-patients, communicating with colleagues, disclosing unexpected outcomes and medical errors, shared decision making and informed consent, and teaching communication skills. Other new chapters describe clinical attitudes such as patience, curiosity, and hope.