Mouse over the tabs to map communication skills to specific assignments:

• All Skills
• Academic Writing
• Oral Communication
• Visual Design
• Revision & Feedback
• Discipline-specific Evidence
• Engaging the Public
• Synthesis of Information
• Collaboration

All communication skills and audiences

Assignments across the Core build many communication skills, encompassing several genres and addressing various audiences



AcademicWriting

Academic writing is a formal genre and ranges from essay exam questions to journal articles to books



Oral Communication

Oral communication encompasses informal classroom discussion, prepared remarks, teaching, poster presentation, and professional academic talks



Visual Design

Visual design is essential to clear science communication



Revision and peer feedback

Constructive feedback from instructors, peers, and tutors helps improve several Core assignments before they are turned in



Discipline-specific use of evidence

Disciplines covered in the Core draw on various forms of evidence and analysis to infer relationships and draw conclusions



Engaging and educating a public audience

Depending on the occasion, a public audience may be extremely broad or it may be narrowly targeted (lawmakers, policy professionals, or other educated non-experts)



Synthesis of Information Across Sources

Organizing, prioritizing, and synthesizing complex information is key to all good communication, but some assignments demand exceptional work in this area



Collaboration

Working with peers effectively and equitably to complete a project is skill that takes practice and can be applied in the classroom, in research groups, and in other workplaces