UpGoerAAPA2017 9/10 - Smith and Raff
Channel: kbannarm
Date: 08/05/2017

Up Goer Five PhysAnth Edition: Communicate Your Science Using English's Ten Hundred Most Common Words

Session Co-organizers: Katherine H. Bannar-Martin and Kim Valenta

A major challenge to scientific researchers is effectively disseminating and communicating their work to diverse audiences. If we are to motivate change, human understanding, or explain the importance of our research to funding bodies and public policy makers, we must find ways to communicate complex concepts and findings to non-specialists. In this session, all speakers have agreed to the rules of the Up Goer Five challenge - to describe their research using only the top 1,000 most common words in the English language. Presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion about the role of language in physical anthropology and science communication.