Ten simple rules for drawing scientific comics
Abstract
Institutions around the world are fighting to improve science communication all the time. From calls for journal papers to be simplified to encouraging scientists to take more of an active role through community engagement, there is an impetus to demystify and improve public understanding and engagement with science. Technology has greatly helped expand the range of learning styles that a lecturer can call on to reach people in new ways. Social media outlets like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr have expanded the reach of science communication within and across scientific disciplines and to the lay public. Here, with all the videos, interactive quizzes, and instant feedback it can be easy to overlook one of the simplest methods for communicating complex ideas: comics.
- Authors:
-
[1];
[2];
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Oregon Health & Sciences Univ., Portland, OR (United States)
- Cranfield Univ., Bedfordshire (United Kingdom)
- Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ (United States); Technische Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany)
- Dassault Systemes, Velizy-Villacoublay (France)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1421336
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-127907
Journal ID: ISSN 1553-7358
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- PLoS Computational Biology (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: PLoS Computational Biology (Online); Journal Volume: 14; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1553-7358
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS; scientific communication; comics; outreach
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McDermott, Jason E., Partridge, Matthew, Bromberg, Yana, and Markel, Scott. Ten simple rules for drawing scientific comics. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005845.
McDermott, Jason E., Partridge, Matthew, Bromberg, Yana, & Markel, Scott. Ten simple rules for drawing scientific comics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005845
McDermott, Jason E., Partridge, Matthew, Bromberg, Yana, and Markel, Scott. Thu .
"Ten simple rules for drawing scientific comics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005845. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1421336.
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abstractNote = {Institutions around the world are fighting to improve science communication all the time. From calls for journal papers to be simplified to encouraging scientists to take more of an active role through community engagement, there is an impetus to demystify and improve public understanding and engagement with science. Technology has greatly helped expand the range of learning styles that a lecturer can call on to reach people in new ways. Social media outlets like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr have expanded the reach of science communication within and across scientific disciplines and to the lay public. Here, with all the videos, interactive quizzes, and instant feedback it can be easy to overlook one of the simplest methods for communicating complex ideas: comics.},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005845},
journal = {PLoS Computational Biology (Online)},
number = 1,
volume = 14,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2018}
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