Scientific and Medical Communication ─ A Guide for Effective Practice

This resource prepares technical communicators to work effectively in scientific and medical discourse communities. It covers writing and editing documentation; researching scientific and medical literature; and working with data and statistics to develop grounded arguments, with the goal of facilitating the publication of journal articles and conference materials in science and medical contexts.

Grounded in research findings from technical communication, rhetoric, linguistics, and medical communication, this work fills significant gaps in current academic training, and explains the practical and theoretical information required to communicate effectively in scientific and medical communities.

Scott A. Mogull is an Associate Professor of Technical Communication in the Department of English at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at Clemson University where he focused on teaching scientific writing to science majors. His research interests include scientific and medical communication. He has published research in both microbiology and technical communication.

For nearly a decade, Mogull has worked in the biotechnology and molecular diagnostics industry as a scientific communicator, product manager, marketing manager, and coordinator of global technical information. For seven years he has been on the editorial board of Technical Communication Quarterly the journal of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW).

He has a Ph.D. in Technical Communication and Rhetoric from Texas Tech University, a M.A. in Microbiology from The University of Texas at Austin, and a M.S. in Human Centered Design and Engineering from the University of Washington.