Popular SCIENCE IMAGES ARE OFTEN DISMISSED AS SUPERFICIAL OR
SUPPLEMENTAL, but, in reality, they have the potential to be powerful
vehicles of communication. Ties between scientific communities and
non-expert PUBLICS COULD BE STRENGTHENED THROUGH RESPONSIBLE VISUAL
COMMUNICATION. As funding for scientific research becomes increasingly
difficult to secure, popular SCIENCE IMAGES REPRESENT AN UNTAPPED
RESOURCE—but only if they are used thoughtfully and
strategically.Join the Friends of the Library and Maria Gigante,
author of _Introducing Science Through Images: Cases of Visual
Popularization_, for a conversation exploring the implications of
communicating science visually.
This event is co-sponsored by the English Department’s Writing,
Rhetoric, and Publication (WRP) [http://blogs.cofc.edu/wrp] minor and
concentration.
DATE: Thursday, September 20, 2018, 6:00—7:30 PM
LOCATION: Addlestone Library Rm. 227 (Second floor, northwest corner)
TICKETS: FREE and open to the public.
Registration is required.
Copies of _Introducing Science Through Images: Cases of Visual
Popularization_ will be available for purchase and signing at the
event.
Q&A will follow the discussion.
Learn more about the book.
[https://www.sc.edu/uscpress/books/2018/7874.html]
MARIA E. GIGANTE is an associate professor of rhetoric and writing
studies in the English Department at Western Michigan University,
where she has spearheaded the development of a SCIENCE-writing
curriculum. Her work on the visual rhetoric of SCIENCE HAS APPEARED
IN _Rhetoric Review_ and the _Journal of Technical Writing and
Communication_.
The English Department’s WRITING, RHETORIC, AND PUBLICATION (WRP)
minor and concentration combine traditional approaches to writing and
editing with new approaches made available by visual and digital
media. The program provides students with knowledge and experiences
that are integral to professional and civic life in the 21st Century:
the ability to create different kinds of texts for a variety of
audiences in a variety of media. blogs.cofc.edu/wrp
[http://blogs.cofc.edu/wrp]
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