NRT-IGE: Science Writing and Rhetorical Training: A New Model for Developing Graduate Science Writers

NRT-IGE：科学写作和修辞训练：培养科学研究生作家的新模式研究生接受的培训是为特定学科的期刊撰稿，但他们通常很少接受与公众和非专业受众沟通的指导。尽管让公众参与科学研究以支持决策和科学素养很重要，但这种缺乏实际培训的情况依然存在。在罗德岛大学的研究生教育创新(IGE)轨道上，这项国家科学基金会研究培训(NRT)奖将填补这一差距，并促进学生？通过交流和参与进行科学学习。要测试的模式是为研究生和理科教师提供的学术和非学术科学写作培训计划，其中将包括一系列课程、研讨会和实习，发展研究生科学写作中心，并强调各种写作项目。该项目将有助于培养能够与其他科学家和公众交流的下一代科学家，并将培训一批在这项工作中支持学生的教职员工。该计划的主要目标是与研究生和教职员工合作，实施一种新的跨学科科学传播培训模式，从研究生科学培训的开始和整个过程，整合各种类型的科学写作和传播。提供的培训模式的一个关键是扎根于修辞学，这是一门致力于语言说服力的学术学科，包括对论点、公共话语和公民参与的研究。这种修辞方法将具有三个鲜明的特点：习惯性写作、多种体裁和频繁复习。研究生会早早并经常写作，以养成写作习惯。他们将为学术和非学术受众练习多种体裁的写作。科学研究生作家将计划和起草他们的写作，然后进入一对一和小组辅导、在线同行评议论坛和研究生科学写作中心的审查和修改过程。为科学写作研究生、学院科学写作研究员和学院科学写作导师举办的研讨会将提供修辞基础，并作为个人、教学和课程改革的基础。学院院士将被指导调整他们研究生课程的教学大纲和写作项目，以便更早地在他们的课程中纳入更多的写作，以及更多的复习和修改的机会。对学生短期和长期学习结果的评估、教师对写作工具的采用、计划性结果和项目级管理将决定哪些组成部分将被带入未来，并可作为类似项目的样板。NSF研究培训(NRT)计划旨在鼓励STEM研究生教育培训的大胆、新的、潜在的变革和可扩展的模式的开发和实施。研究生教育创新轨道专门致力于试验、测试和评估研究生教育的新颖、创新和潜在的变革性方法。

NRT-IGE: Science Writing and Rhetorical Training: A New Model for Developing Graduate Science WritersGraduate students are trained to write for discipline-specific journals, but they typically receive little instruction in communicating to public and non-specialist audiences. This lack of practical training persists despite the importance of engaging members of the public in scientific research to support policy decisions and science literacy. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track to the University of Rhode Island will address this gap and promote students? scientific learning through communication and engagement. The model to be tested is a training program in academic and non-academic science writing for both graduate students and science faculty, which will include a series of courses, workshops, and internships, the development of a Graduate Science Writing Center, and an emphasis on a variety of writing projects. This project will contribute to the next generation of scientists who can communicate with other scientists and the public and will train a set of faculty who support students in that work. The primary goal of this program is to work with graduate students and faculty to implement a new cross-disciplinary model of science communication training that integrates diverse types of science writing and communication from the beginning of and throughout graduate students' scientific training. A key to the training model offered is grounding in rhetoric, the academic discipline devoted to the persuasive power of language that includes studies of argument, public discourse, and civic engagement. The rhetorical approach will have three distinct features: habitual writing, multiple genres, and frequent review. Graduate students will write early and often to create a habit of writing. They will practice writing across multiple genres for academic and non-academic audiences. Graduate science writers will plan and draft their writing and then enter a process of review and revision in one-on-one and small group tutorials in classrooms, online peer review forums, and a Graduate Science Writing Center. Workshops for cohorts of Graduate Science Writing Fellows, Faculty Science Writing Fellows, and Faculty Science Writing Mentors will provide a rhetorical foundation and serve as a basis for individual, pedagogical, and curricular change. Faculty Fellows will be guided to adjust syllabi and writing projects for their graduate courses to incorporate more writing earlier in their courses and more opportunities for review and revision. Assessment of short-term and long-term student learning outcomes, writing tool adoption by faculty, programmatic outcomes, and project-level management will determine which components will be carried into the future and can serve as a model for similar programs.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative, and scalable models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.