Perrault Activities

The Writing, Speaking, and Argument program is excited to announce that Sarah Tinker Perrault will be “visiting” the University of Rochester remotely on Wed Mar 16^th and Fri Mar 18^th.  She will be available to interact via Zoom in several ways:

Public lecture: Engaging communities and earning trust through public science communication

WED Mar 16^th 4-5 pm EST

This talk describes how science communicators can engage outside communities in ways that develop trust and foster productive interactions. It explains three dimensions of trustworthiness (knowledge, integrity, and respect for readers), demonstrates how these matter if scientists are to serve as trusted advisers on scientific topics, and connects each dimension to specific rhetorical choices that writers can make.

Registration:  https://rochester.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsd--oqDgrEtNTreAYZw2GDZqjkMeYkg_K

Workshop (open to UR affiliates interested in teaching):  Teaching communicating about science in ways that promote transfer

FRI Mar 18^th from noon-1:30 pm EST

This workshop will offer strategies to instructors engaged with teaching scientific communication, whether the students are investigating how science is communicated to a range of audiences or doing that communication themselves.  The emphasis will be on strategies that allow students to transfer what they have learned to other scenarios. 

Registration:  https://rochester.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtcOusqDwtEtFri2FISn2CsvTKqPfXoeIw

Individual & group chats (preference given to WSAP members for individual chats if space is limited): https://forms.gle/EK2nTvEpfu8v4bZT7

VARIOUS TIMES on the afternoons of Wed Mar 16^th and Fri Mar 18^th; click through to see times

About the speaker:  Sarah Tinker Perrault focuses on the rhetoric of science and public communication of science, as well as applying composition strategies across the disciplines. She has published extensively on how public communication of science can involve publics in discussions of risks and benefits of emerging technologies, with a focus on the biological sciences.  She also offers a framework for analyzing how language choices can best position insiders and outsiders to have mutually respectful and productive interactions. For the WSAP in particular, her work is relevant to some of our "practice of writing track” or "language, linguistics, writing track" minors as well as our program’s focus on community-engaged language use, as well as to first-year composition instructors whose theme interacts with scientific communication or imagination.

Questions or to request accommodations (please allow at least one week before the visit): katherine.schaefer@rochester.edu