Crowdfunding is a novel mechanism for garnering monetary support from the online public,
and increasingly it is being used to fund science. This article reports a small-scale study …

The research article is a staple genre in the economy of scientific research, and although
research articles have received considerable treatment in genre scholarship, little attention …

Technical communication scholars have tended to treat uncertainty as a lack of certainty
rather than as a diverse range of strategies for talking about risk. This review employs …

This article explores the intersection of Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) and Actor-Network
Theory (ANT). These two traditions are particularly important in the Canadian research …

This innovative book employs genre as a fruitful lens for exploring the complexity of science
communication online and the new genre assemblages formed at the interface of multiple …

This dissertation is the first in-depth study of citizens' radiation data production practices
following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident of 2011. It is also the first in-depth …

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an enormous stream of information.
Parascientific digital communication has pursued different avenues, from mainstream media …

A recently published NSF-funded report calls for enhanced training for advanced science
students so that they are prepared to communicate persuasively and in narrative form to a …

Although contemporary scientists are becoming better public communicators, professional
academic genres like the research article remain difficult for non-expert audiences to grasp …

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an enormous stream of information.
Parascientific digital communication has pursued different avenues, from mainstream media …