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The Practice of Technical and Scientific Communication: Writing in Professional Contexts
Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishers, 1998.
Invited by the Director of Miami University's Master of Technical and Scientific Communication Program to write the chapter, "Writing for the Environmental Sciences."
 
Biosphere 2000: Protecting Our Global Environment
New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1993.
Invited by the head of Miami University's Zoology Department to prepare four chapters that address:
Effects of politics and economics on environmental resources management
Environmental ethics
Environmental dispute resolution
Environmental education
Chelsea House Publishers 
Edited college textbooks in the Deadly Diseases and Epidemics series published by Chelsea House Publishers:
HIV/AIDS
Smallpox
Typhoid fever
Campylobacter
 
University of California, Davis, Extension
Developed and taught the following courses:
Communicating health risk information
Environmental dispute resolution
Technical writing for engineers
Public involvement at hazardous sites
Writing in plain language
University of California, Davis
School of Medicine
As a medical writer, I wrote press releases and articles about research and breakthroughs for the school's quarterly magazine.
 
Public Service Research & Dissemination Program
As a science communication intern, I helped organize a conference for journalists to teach them the fundamentals of environmental toxicology so they could more accurately report on the health effects of subsurface water contamination.
 
Miami University
As a graduate assistant, I taught business communication courses to seniors in Miami's school of business that focused on defining the scope, tone, audience, purpose and design for professional documents.

 

Typhoid Fever book  Smallpox book
HIV/AIDS book Campylobacter book

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