About this series
Though much of the writing and communicating you do while at university will be to a narrow, discipline-specific audience (your instructor, classmates, and other researchers in your field), while you’re here, you may also have opportunities to communicate your ideas to a broader public.
While there’s no one-size fits all formula for effective communication, the format of your communication (in addition to your audience) will shape what you share and how. In this series, we will explore several different formats: podcasts, infographics, posters, and popular press. In each post, we’ll discuss how to streamline longer content for easy reading, viewing, and/or listening; leverage graphics and visuals; and make your content accessible for diverse audiences.
Learning objectives
- Learn to tailor your research for diverse audiences and formats.
- Evaluate different communication formats for their effectiveness and affordances.
- Locate resources and tools to support alternative forms of scholarly communication.
- Apply principles of accessibility and attribution/citation to those alternative formats.
Read the posts
Reading takes you a long time? That might be good for you!
Struggling to keep up with your course readings? Slow, focused reading might feel frustrating—but it’s actually one of the most powerful ways to learn.
How to provide feedback to your instructors
Feedback is an essential part of the learning experience for both students and instructors and is a necessary part of the course. Your feedback helps your instructor understand your experience and improves the course.
Tailoring your message series: Creating great academic posters
Tailor your research for specific audiences. In this post you’ll learn how to present your materials in the form of an academic poster.
Writing to create: Using writing as a tool for thinking
Do you find it challenging to organize your thoughts into a coherent paper, identify your main argument, or even come up with ideas? What if you could use writing itself to strategize such issues and plan your assignments? This post explores how writing can be a way of thinking, reflecting, and above all, creating!