ACADEMIC WORK
Here I include pieces that exemplify all of the criteria that writers love: audience, purpose, and tone. Every decision I make while writing has these three ideas in mind. Puzzling together words, sentences, punctuation and paragraphs is the challenge I love most about writing. Below I've added just a couple of pieces I wrote in my first Science Communication capstone course.
After over four years of studying biology, I developed a keen sense for good science. Objectivity, effective methods, representative results... Many aspects rank the quality of a scientific study. I think critically about experimental design, so science literacy has become a skill of mine. For this assignment, I summarized a scientific study about migration patterns of ancient humans.
As a science writer, I must be able to express complex ideas to people of various experience levels. Analogies, metaphors, schemata... These genres are tools I use to convey scientific concepts to non-scientists. Think about a complicated idea and tell it intuitively—it's as simple as that.
As a science communicator, I am also a teacher who tailors her curriculum to her audience's needs. In this example, I instruct the concept of biodiversity to kids with ADHD.