Communicating as Women in STEM - Softcover

Brammer, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128025794 ISBN 13: 9780128025796

Publisher: Academic Press, 2018

Synopsis

Communicating as Women in STEM discusses various communication styles, also demonstrating how principles can be applied during interpersonal interactions in day-to-day environments. It provides women and other underrepresented groups, faculty and administrators with the tools they need to break barriers raised by different communication styles within the STEM fields. Sections cover tactics on how to become more aware of communication patterns and how to cope with, and improve, communication. This practical resource for women in the STEM fields is also ideal for mentors, educators, advisers and organizations interested in encouraging women to choose and remain in these fields.

• Enables women, minorities, faculty and administrators to develop broader communication skills
• Teaches constructive communication strategies for interaction with mentees, mentors, faculty, managers, colleagues and other professionals
• Contains observation exercises that include questions and sample scenarios to illustrate communication strategies

About this title

Review:

Presents strategies that help women and underrepresented groups implement verbal and nonverbal skills to improve communication across genders

About the Author:

Author, speaker, and educator, Charlotte Brammer researches professional communication and the rhetoric of storytelling. A tenured professor at Samford University, Charlotte directs the writing center, training consultants to work with students from across the curriculum. With a Ph.D. in English/applied linguistics, she focuses on verbal as well as nonverbal interaction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0128025794
• ISBN 13: 9780128025796
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108