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：培养研究生科学作家的新模式研究生被训练为特定学科的期刊写作，但他们通常很少接受与公众和非专业观众沟通的指导。尽管让公众参与科学研究以支持政策决定和科学素养非常重要，但缺乏实际培训的情况依然存在。这个国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖在研究生教育创新（IGE）轨道罗得岛大学将解决这一差距，促进学生？通过沟通和参与进行科学学习。要测试的模型是学术和非学术科学写作的研究生和科学教师，其中将包括一系列的课程，研讨会和实习，研究生科学写作中心的发展，并强调各种写作项目的培训计划。该项目将有助于培养下一代科学家，他们可以与其他科学家和公众交流，并将培养一批支持学生从事这项工作的教师。该计划的主要目标是与研究生和教师合作，实施一种新的跨学科科学传播培训模式，该模式从研究生科学培训的开始和整个过程中整合了不同类型的科学写作和沟通。所提供的培训模式的关键是修辞学的基础，这是一门致力于语言说服力的学科，包括对辩论，公共话语和公民参与的研究。修辞学方法有三个明显的特点：习惯性写作、多种体裁和经常复习。研究生会尽早写，并经常养成写作的习惯。他们将为学术和非学术观众练习跨多种体裁的写作。研究生科学作家将计划和起草他们的写作，然后在教室，在线同行评议论坛和研究生科学写作中心的一对一和小组辅导中进入审查和修订过程。研究生科学写作研究员，学院科学写作研究员和学院科学写作导师的队列研讨会将提供一个修辞基础，并作为个人，教学和课程变革的基础。教师研究员将被引导调整教学大纲和写作项目，为他们的研究生课程，以纳入更多的写作早期在他们的课程和更多的机会进行审查和修改。短期和长期的学生学习成果的评估，教师的写作工具采用，计划成果和项目级管理将决定哪些组件将被带入未来，并可以作为类似计划的模式。NSF研究培训（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的，新的，潜在的变革，和可扩展的STEM研究生教育培训模型。 研究生教育创新轨道专门致力于试点，测试和评估新颖，创新和潜在的变革性研究生教育方法。

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.