Public communication workshop for PhD media students
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Charlie BeckettLSE
Public communication workshop for PhD students
11.10.2011
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Why Communicate
• Moral and political obligation?
• You are studying communication
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What is ‘good’ writing or communication?
It is communication that is understood by your audience
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George OrwellPolitics and the English Language
• Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
• Never use a long word where a short one will do.• If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.• Never use the passive where you can use the active.• Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon
word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.• Break any of these rules sooner than say anything
outright barbarous.
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Abstract Exercise I
• Why Should Anyone Pay Any Attention To What You Have To Say?How Do You Keep Their Attention?What Do You Want To Say?
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Abstract Exercise I
• Turn your academic abstract into:• one paragraph
one sentenceone worda picture/photoa gesture
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Can you sum up your research?
• Tabloid newspaper headline
• First para of Economist Feature
• First reply to radio interview
• 140 character micro-blog