Personal, direct, spontaneous, responsive, and emotionally vivid communication

The image contains text saying "A quick guide to effective research communication" and contains five cartoon humans representing 5 different areas of effective communication, including making your research personal, direct, spontaneous, responsive, and emotionally vivid.

At Virginia Tech's Center for Communicating Science, we focus on five core goals as we help people build their muscles of communication and connection: communication that is personal, direct, spontaneous, responsive, and emotionally vivid. Click on each of the tiles below for more information about each of these goals, why we believe them to be important, and how you can work toward the goals on your own.

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Make your research communication PERSONAL
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Make your research communication DIRECT
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Make your research communication SPONTANEOUS
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Make your research communication RESPONSIVE
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Make your research communication EMOTIONALLY VIVID
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General reminders about communicating science and research

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2412389. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.