Teaching Public Health Writing
Teaching Public Health Writing by
Armed with up-to-date theory, narrative examples, and detailed instructions from writing assignments used in public health classrooms across disciplines and genres, Teaching Public Health Writing offers public health instructors the skills needed to refresh or redesign in-course writing instruction and assignments, ensuring the next generation of professionals have the tools they need to communicate confidently and effectively.
ISBN: 9780197576465Publication Date: 2022-08-30
SPH Liaison
Welcome to Public Health Writing!
Welcome to the Public Health Writing Resources guide!
This is your one stop shop for all things when it comes to public health writing. On the left hand side of the page, you will find a variety of tabs about the Public Health Blog here at BU, about using and citing your sources, plagiarism, some books and podcasts, and so on! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Alumni Medical Library's reference department, or send an email to the SPH liaison, Kristen.
Public Health Writing
Writing clear, powerful prose is an intellectual and emotional process that involves time, humility, courage, patience, optimism, and constant practice. Similar to excelling at a sport or playing beautiful music, becoming a better writer demands daily intentional engagement and constant attention to possibilities for improving process, style, and precision. With the appropriate support and resources, anyone who approaches their writing as a skill they practice daily can improve.
Public health writing. Public Health Writing | SPH. (n.d.). Retrieved July 12, 2022, from https://www.bu.edu/sph/education/public-health-writing/
- Visit the Public Health Writing Program blog!Head over to SPH's Public Health Writing blog, where you will find amazing articles written by SPH Professor and Director of the Public Health Writing Program, Jen Beard.
- PHX: Public Health Writing GuideThe Public Health Writing Guide provides concrete strategies for improving your prose, increasing your productivity, and meeting the specific needs of your readers. Our goal is to provide you with some best practices that can be useful to you over the course of your career, any time you are looking for encouragement, structure, or advice about how to get started.
Popular Blog Posts
- Quote Rarely, Paraphrase Often, Cite Generously (Part 1/2)Part 1: Quoting the Words of Others in Public Health Writing
- Quote Rarely, Paraphrase Often, Cite Generously (Part 2/2)Part 2: Translating the Words of Others and Crediting Sources
A Harm Reduction Approach to Writing
- A Harm Reduction Approach to Writing: Revising and Giving Feedback (Webinar)In public health, the harm reduction approach entails meeting people where they are, accepting that they will engage in behaviors that are harmful to their health, and offering strategies to mitigate negative outcomes. This webinar starts with the premise that all writing is flawed, and that we can use harm reduction strategies to make the process of revising our own work or giving feedback to others humane, pragmatic, incremental, and less overwhelming.