Science and Politics: Communicating with the Public

A basic guide that helps you apply the basics of good communication to the specialized nature of scientific topics. Discusses how to choose the right words for your audience, developing a 3-point message, how to illustrate your points, and the role non-verbal communications plays in delivering your message.

A no-nonsense collection of tips for designing public engagement activities by Dr. Alice Bell from Imperial College London. Namely, know your audience, communication goes goth ways, and be realistic about your goals.

This is a rather illuminating collection of suggestions for the aspiring journalist...or scientist...on how to communicate with audiences outside your own disciplinary niche.

Put together by Nature Publishing, this page includes a number of mini courses, guides and other material on how to effectively communicate scientific information with a wide number of audiences.

Teh Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology has put together a rather good booklet looking at the role scientific journalism plays in advancing public understanding about scientific advances and their social applications, and how scientists can better communicate with journalists to get their message across.

A series of articles from top scientific journalists giving advice on how they write about science for main-steam media.

Some myths about how to communicate science to the general public, and some tips for keeping your audience's interest - and your credibility - intact.

Why metaphors are important when communicating outside your discipline, and how they can help and hinder scientific writing.