With a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering and more than 12 years of experience as a science communicator, I'm an expert at helping scientists tell their science stories. If you're looking to become a more confident communicator of science, check out my newsletter!
Issue 13 - Fixed It For You
Hey, Reader! Here in Colorado the weather is gorgeous and spring allergies are in full swing. Can't have it all, I guess!
Today's newsletter includes the debut of what I hope will be a new series for me, "Fixed It For You," in which I show how and why I revise sentences to make them clearer and simpler. Is this useful to you? Would you like to see more? Hit reply and let me know!
Fixed It For You
I love sentence-level tweaking and revision (a.k.a. "wordsmithing") with clients. Here, I delve into examples of that kind of revision so that you can see how to do it, too.
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Start With Expectations
I spoke way too fast and my headset kept falling off. So why was my audience so pleased with my talk?
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From Around the Web
- To communicate scientific research, we need to confront motivated ignorance - It's not that the public lacks information; some of them don't want it.
- Silbersalz Science and Media Awards - Submissions are open until April 30th for this international competition. Check out the categories here.
From the Archives
With spring weather here in Colorado, my mind is turning back to this very cool research on dandelion seed flight, which I covered a few years back in a couple FYFD videos.
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That's it for now! I'll see you again in two weeks with more scicomm tips, tricks, and inspiration. - Nicole
Nicole Sharp, Ph.D.
With a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering and more than 12 years of experience as a science communicator, I'm an expert at helping scientists tell their science stories. If you're looking to become a more confident communicator of science, check out my newsletter!
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