Blog Post #2 on research topic/issue with tentative 10 sources and Peer Response

The topic that I have landed on is The Communication of Scientific Findings Related to Climate Change to the General Public." While looking for sources for my topic, I realized that there are less sources about it than I would have thought. I also noticed that most of the sources I found are from the past 25 years. So it is clearly a newly sprouted topic in the technical communication/communication community. I think that this is a good thing because that means that we are going to start talking about it more and more which I deem definitely necessary. The 10 tentative sources I found cover a variety of different methods of communicating climate change science to the public.
  1. Spoel, Philippa, et al. “Public Communication of Climate Change Science: Engaging Citizens Through Apocalyptic Narrative Explanation.” Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Dec. 2008, pp. 49–81. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1080/10572250802437382.
  2. Richards, Daniel P., and Erin E. Jacobson. “How Real Is Too Real? User-Testing the Effects of Realism as a Risk Communication Strategy in Sea Level Rise Visualizations.” Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, Apr. 2022, pp. 190–206. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2021.1986135.
  3. Rademaekers, Justin King, and Richard Johnson-Sheehan. “Framing and Re-Framing in Environmental Science: Explaining Climate Change to the Public.” Journal of Technical Writing & Communication, vol. 44, no. 1, Mar. 2014, pp. 3–21. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.2190/TW.44.1.b.
  4. Ross, Derek G. “Dam Visuals: The Changing Visual Argument for the Glen Canyon Dam.” Journal of Technical Writing & Communication, vol. 38, no. 1, Mar. 2008, pp. 75–94. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.2190/TW.38.1.e.
  5. Cagle, Lauren E., and Denise Tillery. “Climate Change Research Across Disciplines: The Value and Uses of Multidisciplinary Research Reviews for Technical Communication.” Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, Apr. 2015, pp. 147–63. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2015.1001296.
  6. Majdik, Zoltan P. “A Computational Approach to Assessing Rhetorical Effectiveness: Agentic Framing of Climate Change in the Congressional Record, 1994–2016.” Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3, July 2019, pp. 207–22. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2019.1601774.
  7. Tutt, Bryan. “Frames in Reports and in Reporting: How Framing Affects Global Warming Information in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s ‘Summary for Policymakers’ and in Documents Written about the Report.” Journal of Technical Writing & Communication, vol. 39, no. 1, Jan. 2009, pp. 43–55. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.2190/TW.39.1.d.
  8. Lane, Christina. “Industrial Discourse in Voluntary Environmental Disclosure Questionnaires Responses: A Case Study.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, vol. 51, no. 3, July 2021. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1177/0047281620913860.
  9. Shirley, Beth. “Post-Fact Fact Sheets: Dissociative Framing as a Strategy to Work Past Climate Change Denial.” Technical Communication Online
  10. Williams, Sean. “Technical Communication for Environmental Action.” State University of New York Press, Sunny Press Open Access. 2023. Project Muse

Comments

  1. Cora WilliamsonSeptember 12, 2023 at 12:50 PM

    Hello Cheyenne! I think this is a great topic. It is specific and there seems to be some research on the topic already. The names of the articles you have here seem to apply exactly to your topic, so you are well set-up to proceed with your research. You also sound motivated to look into this particular topic, which is always a good thing. Good job and good luck!

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