Communicating Genetics

Han Yu is professor of technical communication at Kansas State University, USA. Her research interests include scientific/science communication, visual rhetoric, and intercultural communication. She is author of The Other Kind of Funnies: Comics in Technical Communication and co-editor of Negotiating Cultural Encounters: Narrating Intercultural Engineering and Technical Communication.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Visualizing Genetics for Public Readers.- Chapter 2 The Photographic View: Observational Record and Symbolic Excess.- Chapter 3 The Microscopic View: Miniscule Science and Art.- Chapter 4 The Illustrated View: Iconic Explanations and Figurative Metaphors.- Chapter 5 The Code View: Cracking the Genetic Code of Life.- Chapter 6 The Graph View: Navigating Big Data Science.- Chapter 7 The Structural View: 2D Realities and 3D Possibilities.- Chapter 8 Conclusion.

“Communicating Genetics: Visualizations and Representations is a thoughtful, important book that goes beyond theoretical discussion about visual representation of genetics. … I highly recommend this book for science and technical communication graduate students (even if they are not studying scientific communication) and scholars and practitioners in these fields as well. I make this recommendation not only because of the important subject matter regarding genetics, but anyone who has a hand in creating visuals can benefit from this excellent study.” (Diane Martinez, Technical Communication, Vol 65 (2), May, 2018)