Communicating Specialized Knowledge to General/Outside Audiences

_ Research on writing in the workplace shows that professionals with advanced education or skills need to spend large portions of their time at work writing (and this is true not just in the humanities and social sciences but also in the STEM fields). Especially for international students, when they graduate and join the workforce here in the US, the challenges of writing to communicate with a variety of audiences from within and beyond their academic specialty can be intense. Designed to help graduate international students face this challenge, this workshop will engage participants in exercises for analyzing/understanding the audience, contexts, purposes, types, and means and channels of writing. Participants will be also involved in translation exercises, rewriting complex academic texts whose content needs to be communicated to non-specialist audiences in different contexts. _While this workshop is for international graduate students, all graduate students are welcome. _ To register for this workshop, visit here. _ This event is hosted by The Graduate School at Penn State.