Communication scientifique dans le domaine des sciences exactes [ LBRTI2203 ]

No pre-necessary knowledge

- Introduction to the theories of communication : models and fundamental concepts

- Success and failure factors of communication

- Principles of scientific writing

- Principles of communicational writing (scientific vulgarization)

- Analysis of the language of pictures

- Slideshow or "how to succeed in presenting with various supports" (speech, text and pictures)

- Principles of oral communication

a. Contribution de l'activité au référentiel AA (AA du programme)

LO BIRE : M6.2, M6.3, M6.4, M6.5, M6.7, M6.8, M8.3

b. Formulation spécifique pour cette activité des AA du programme (maximum 10)

By the end of the course, the student will be able :

1. to explain and to discuss about the importance it is, for a scientist, to be able to accurately communicate research results to fellow colleagues and to communicate science-related topics to non-experts (vulgarization)

2. to implement the different success factors of communication, during several communication exercises

3. to master the principles of a written scientific communication process, in order to write a short introduction to his/her Master's thesis or PhD thesis

4. to practise the principles implemented in communicational writing in order to compose a vulgarization article related to his/her Master's thesis or PhD thesis

5. to use the characteristics of iconic language (discovered through semiology and visual pragmatism) in order to appropriately illustrate the vulgarization article referred to in 4.and the slideshow referred to in 7.

6. to set in practice the specificities of oral communication, during a simulation of his/her Master's thesis or PhD thesis dissertation

7. to plan appropriately written, visual and oral elements, in order to implement a slideshow for his/her Master's thesis or PhD thesis.

Evaluation :

1.     To compose a vulgarizing text, with pictures

2.     To simulate a Master's thesis or PhD thesis dissertation

3.     To implement a slideshow for the Master's thesis or PhD thesis

For each performance, students receive guidelines that also serve as evaluation criteria.

The course mixes theory, role playing, case studies (especially presented from video clips), and exercises (both in groups or individual).

Extra exercises are offered to the 'at home-students' in order to encourage the mastering of the targeted learning outcomes. These exercises are not compulsory but advised.

Teachers use a criteria grid to give feed-back to students about their exercises and productions.

Introduction : Communication : a duty and a challenge for scientists. Scientific communication : a continuum of practices

Chapter 1. Theories of communication : models and fundamental concepts ; Success and failure factors of communication

Chapter 2. Principles of scientific writing

Chapter 3. Scientific vulgarization : aims, specificities, communicators, target publics, media and tools

Chapter 4. Principles of communicational writing : writing for non-specialists

Chapter 5. Analysis of the language of pictures. Introduction to semiology and visual pragmatism

Chapter 6. Slideshow or "how to succeed in presenting with various supports" (speech, text and pictures)

Chapter 7. Specificities of oral communication

Photocopies of slideshows

Optional :

Corten-Gualtieri P. et Saucin J. (Eds.) (2009) De la communication scientifique à la vulgarisation : un continuum de pratiques, 3^ème édition revue et corrigée, 139 p.

For more :

·       MEUNIER J.-P. et PERAYA D. (2004). Introduction aux théories de la communication. De Boeck éd., Coll. Culture et Communication, 2ème édition, 459p.

·       BEAUD M. (2006) : L'art de la thèse ; Comment réparer et rédiger un mémoire de master, une thèse de doctorat ou tout autre travail universitaire à l'ère du Net, Nouvelle édition, Coll. Guides Repères, Ed. La Découverte, Paris, 202 p.

·       BUTTLER A. (2002). Comment rédiger un rapport ou une publication scientifique ?, Université de Franche-Comté, http://www.sante.univ-nantes.fr/cidmef/menu/CommentRediger.pdf

·       TORRISI (s.d.) : Vulgarisation scientifique, syllabus de cours, Haute École Galilée, 44p.

·       MINISTÈRE DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ FRANÇAISE DE BELGIQUE (Service de la langue française) et MINISTÈRE FÉDÉRAL DE LA FONCTION PUBLIQUE (Service d'information) (2000): Écrire pour être lu, Henry Ingberg (Ed.), Bruxelles, 84 p.

·       TECFA (Unité active dans le domaine des technologies éducatives) (s.d.) : Visualiser

l'information ; typologie des illustrations, Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de

l'Education, Université de Genève. Enseignement à distance : http://tecfa.unige.ch/themes/tdsr/visuali/manuel/visuali-man-visuali-Typologi.html

·       THIBEAU R. (2008) : Expression orale (notes de cours), Haute École Galilée, IHECS,

81p.

·       AIMONETTI J.-M. (2006) : Comment ne pas endormir son auditoire en 30 secondes; La communication orale avec diaporama, De Boeck éd., 175p.