Helping students/ECEs write is hard. Now there's a book to help!

[Bethann Garramon Merkle]

Hello colleagues,
If you find mentoring and teaching writing difficult, mystifying, or time-consuming, here are two important things you should know:
1. You’re not alone. In our experience, most scientists find teaching writing at least one, and usually all three, of those things.
2. My new book (with Stephen Heard) can help! There are ways to teach writing (in the classroom) and to mentor writers (grad students and other early-career folk) more easily and more efficiently, and our book from University of Chicago Press—Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences: An Evidence-Based Approach—can help you discover and implement them.


That second part is especially good news today, because Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences is now available for pre-order from the University of Chicago Press! **Use UCPNEW for 30% off** at this link: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo254814702.html. You can also view the jacket copy and blurbs from Terry McGlynn (Science for Everyone, formerly Small Pond Science), Inger Mewburn (Thesis Whisperer), and Faith Kearns (Getting to the Heart of SciComm) on the UCP website.


If you'd like more info, full book details are here: https://www.commnatural.com/post/teaching-mentoring-science-writers-toc.  You can subscribe here to receive email updates as the book’s release gets closer: https://commnatural.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8898546ad220ead26bed52cf3&id=49c5d02984. 


The book is appropriate for anyone supporting developing writers at any career stage, and even experienced faculty are likely to find it helpful. Please share this resource with other folks you know it could help! 
Bethann (& Steve)

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BETHANN GARRAMON MERKLE, MFA
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