Understanding Visuals in the Life Sciences

Auteur

Han Yu is Professor of Science Communication at the Department of English at Kansas State University, and a Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Her research focuses on popular science communication and visual rhetoric. She is the author of The Curious Human Knee (2023); Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer's (2021); Communicating Genetics: Visualizations and Representations (2017); and The Other Kind of Funnies: Comics in Technical Communication (2015).

Texte du rabat

"This book is written for life scientists and science communicators to help them create more effective visuals for non-specialists in popular science communication. Accessible and concise, this is a useful guide for students, general readers and anyone who creates visuals in popular science communication"--

Contenu

Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Photograph; 3. Micrograph; 4. Illustration; 5. Graph; 6. Interactive Visuals; 7. Infographics; Conclusion; Summary of common misunderstandings; References; Figure credits; Index.