Identify an audience of non-scholars who are affected by or implicated in your research, and to reflect on what non-scholarly genres or modalities (e.g. styles and forms of composing) might be most appropriate for reaching that audience.
Academic discourse is where experienced, professional researchers enact civil and productive conversations about the challenges we face as a society, but the conventions of those conversations—logic-heavy arguments, structured writing, academic-style prose, etc.—in some ways inhibit what we are able to say about our topics and who we are able to say it to. The result […]