Exercise #2: Public Communication Essay
Purpose and skills being developed: This exercise is intended to help develop scientific writing skills suitable for public communication, within the student’s area of interest. A secondary goal is to develop some breadth and depth of knowledge within their area of study. Members of the advisory committee will review this exercise as they would a commentary submitted to a scientific journal, or as a reader of an article tailored for a non-scientific audience.Examples include (but are not limited to) an article tailored for the Dorsal Column, or a journal club article for the Journal of Neuroscience related to a recently published article (within 2 months of publication). Submission of the article is not required to fulfill this exercise.
Journal of Neuroscience Journal Club: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneurosci-journal-club
SONGS Dorsal Column: https://songsuwo.ca/tdc-welcome-letter
