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Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences: An Evidence-Based Approach de Bethann Garramon Merkle

Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences: An Evidence-Based Approach: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

Autor Bethann Garramon Merkle, Stephen B. Heard
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2025

Observăm că, deși cercetătorii sunt instruiți riguros în metodologii de laborator sau analiză de date, pregătirea lor pentru a preda scrierea academică este adesea lăsată la voia întâmplării. Prezentat sub formă de manual de bune practici, Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences vine să umple acest gol pedagogic în cadrul prestigioasei serii Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing. Volumul nu se limitează la sfaturi intuitive, ci propune o abordare fundamentată pe dovezi, extrasă din studii de retorică, compoziție și științe ale educației, totul într-un limbaj accesibil, lipsit de jargonul arid al literaturii pedagogice.

Remarcăm o structură pragmatică a conținutului, care urmărește parcursul mentorului de la stabilirea unei baze comune de comunicare cu studentul, până la gestionarea eficientă a volumului de muncă prin resurse partajate. Cartea abordează frontal provocări contemporane, dedicând capitole speciale scriitorilor EAL (English as an Additional Language) și integrării uneltelor moderne, de la dicționare la asistenți de scriere bazați pe inteligență artificială, precum ChatGPT. Această ediție pune accent pe eficiență, oferind strategii prin care mentorul poate oferi feedback productiv fără a fi copleșit de timp.

Lucrarea acoperă o arie tematică similară cu Teaching Academic Writing in the Health Sciences de Dr. Ella August, însă Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences adoptă o perspectivă mai interdisciplinară, fiind aplicabilă întregului spectru al științelor naturale, nu doar domeniului medical. În timp ce alte titluri se concentrează strict pe procesul de publicare, autorii Bethann Garramon Merkle și Stephen B. Heard analizează scrierea ca pe o competență de carieră fundamentală, esențială atât în mediul academic, cât și în cel profesional.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226843889
ISBN-10: 0226843882
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 9 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui cercetător, conducător de doctorat sau cadru didactic care dorește să îmbunătățească abilitățile de redactare ale studenților săi fără a sacrifica timp prețios. Cititorul câștigă un set de instrumente verificate pentru a oferi feedback rapid și clar, învățând cum să ghideze tinerii scriitori spre independență editorială și cum să navigheze provocările etice și practice ale utilizării AI în scrierea științifică.

Despre autor

Bethann Garramon Merkle și Stephen B. Heard sunt experți recunoscuți în comunicarea științifică. Stephen B. Heard este cunoscut pentru abilitatea sa de a demistifica procesul de scriere în științe, aducând o notă de umor și claritate subiectelor complexe. Bethann Garramon Merkle completează această expertiză prin experiența sa vastă în pedagogia scrierii și retorică. Împreună, cei doi autori combină rigoarea academică cu o abordare practică, menită să transforme mentoratul dintr-o sarcină consumatoare de timp într-o activitate structurată și plină de satisfacții pentru comunitatea științifică.

Descriere scurtă

Blending deep experience, humor, and evidence-based advice, this is an invaluable resource for everyone involved in developing good scientific writers.
 
Every scientist eventually teaches scientific writing or mentors junior scientists as they develop their writing skills—only to discover that the task is both challenging and remarkably time-consuming. If you are in this position, Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences is the resource you need, offering approaches that will help you help writers develop their skills more effectively and with less time and effort.
 
Bethann Garramon Merkle and Stephen B. Heard, both experts in scientific communication, offer evidence-based advice that draws on their own extensive experience as well as on proven tactics from writing studies, science studies, and rhetoric and composition. Shorn of the unfamiliar and off-putting jargon that much pedagogy literature adopts, their advice is engaging and accessible to scientists. As you read, you’ll see where developing writers are coming from; how mastering scientific writing matters to the careers of students who do and don’t continue in academia; how writing occurs and is taught in both undergraduate and graduate curricula; how to find and harness teaching resources that help share the workload; how to teach writing to students who speak English as an additional language; and how to navigate the use (by yourself and by developing writers) of tools from pencils and dictionaries to AI writing assistants. If you teach or mentor scientific writers, this book will help you deliver what your students and mentees need most: clear, effective writing guidance.

Notă biografică

Bethann Garramon Merkle is professor of practice at the University of Wyoming, where she teaches and studies science communication and scientific writing. She is a transdisciplinary researcher who melds art, writing, and social science research to understand and enhance how we train scientists. She was formerly a science journalist and editor, has contributed to many collaborative book projects, and blogs at School of Good Trouble. Stephen B. Heard is honorary research professor at the University of New Brunswick. He is an evolutionary ecologist and the author of The Scientist’s Guide to Writing and Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider. He blogs at Scientist Sees Squirrel. He has spent many years teaching scientific writing; he still finds it hard, but not nearly as hard as he once did.

Cuprins

Introduction
1. Getting on the Same Page: Understanding and Communicating with the Developing Writer
2. What Learners Do with Writing—and How to Get Them There
3. Efficient, Productive Writing Feedback
4. Writing in the Classroom
5. Writing Outside the Classroom
6. Teaching and Mentoring Toward Independent Learning
7. Sharing the Workload (and the Fun)
8. Teaching and Mentoring the EAL Writer
9. From Pencils to ChatGPT: Tools to Improve Writing, and Writers
10. Writing in a Broader Curriculum
Afterword: How Do You Know You’re Doing a Good Job? And How Do You Convince Others That You Are?

Acknowledgments
Appendix: Resources for Writing Teachers/Mentors
Notes
References
Index

Recenzii

“A treasure trove. . . . As someone who teaches writing to scientists and lots of other people, I can confidently say: this book gets it. Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences is smartly focused and refreshingly practical. Merkle and Heard understand that writing in the sciences doesn’t happen in a vacuum: It’s shaped by mentorship, institutional pressures, what’s happening in the wider world—and now AI. This book is a lifeline for anyone designing writing courses or struggling to support research students. It offers genuinely useful advice on assessment (a rare feat in the age of ChatGPT), mentoring for process not just product, and clear strategies for giving better feedback (a skill most academics were never taught). The EAL chapter alone is worth the price of admission—insightful and refreshingly non-patronising. What the authors have to say about AI in scientific writing is especially strong—informative, nuanced, and timely. If you’re a research supervisor or teacher who’s tired of just ‘correcting’ student work and wants a more thoughtful way to teach writing, this book delivers.”

“This book offers something rare: guidance for scientists who teach and mentor students in writing without much formal training in it themselves. In a clear and engaging way, the authors offer practical, evidence-based strategies on everything from giving feedback to using AI. Essential reading for scientists helping students grow into confident, capable scientific communicators.”

“While scientists are taught how to write, how many of us have learned how to teach writing? This eminently pragmatic guide can rectify that situation, and I recommend it to all of us to improve our craft as teachers and mentors.”