As a group, we will watch a webinar from the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD), then discuss our takeaways with peers and the SHSU Scholarly Communications Librarian. You can also learn more about how to benefit from SHSU's membership in NCFDD. The following details come from NCFDD's website.

Presentation: Writing for a Broader Audience: How to Convey Complex Ideas in Clear, Accessible Prose

Facilitator: Sarah Grey

Session Description (Excerpt): The dissertation trains academics to write for a very specific audience: a small committee of experts in the field. Journal article and monographs, too, are usually geared toward a highly specialized reader. But bringing your findings out into the wider world, where they can reach a broad, nonspecialist audience, calls for a different approach. How should you adapt your writing style as you turn your specialized research into a book, a magazine article, or an essay? What does it mean to write as a public intellectual, and how can you convey complex ideas without "dumbing down" your work?

Facilitator Bio: Sarah Grey founded Grey Editing in 2011 after several years of part-time freelancing. She has since edited and coached ESL students, novelists, professors, judges, activists, rabbis, filmmakers, CEOs, union workers, and diplomats. Her years as a translation project manager taught her much about the intricacies of syntax as well as the importance of crafting a text for its intended audience, linguistically and culturally.