Write to the Point

UF Writing Program
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Hosted by the University of Florida’s Writing Program, “Write to the Point” features conversations with writing experts about the secrets to great communication. Guests on the show recognize that writing “to the point” means connecting with audiences and building knowledge bases in order to transform their communities. Available on Apple, Spotify, Audible, and Deezer. UF University Writing Program: https://writing.ufl.edu/ Questions? Contact host Tony Manganaro at amanganaro@ufl.edu

  1. 16 OCT

    Science for the People! Media Literacy and Project-Based Learning in Scientific Communication

    In this conversation, Dr. Jamie Loizzo makes a strong pitch for all scientists to communicate to the public in a variety of mediums: podcasts, photo essays, virtual reality tours, and more. Scientists have a social responsibility to strengthen public understanding and trust. Among other topics, she and Tony discuss her background in radio/TV; the critical importance in being understandable to middle schoolers; what makes for a terrific science podcast; and the importance of not just ‘scaring’ people but offering ‘solutions.’ Loizzo is an associate professor in the University of Florida’s Department of Agricultural Education and Communication; her project, Streaming Science, disseminates research to the broader public alongside her students.

    35 min

  2. 1 ABR

    Science Fiction as Emotional Metaphor: Writing a Novel as a Way of Thinking

    In this conversation, Tony is joined by Albertine Clarke, whose first novel, The Body Builders, is being published by Bloomsbury Press in February 2026. In addition to exploring the mind-bendingly original novel itself, Albertine and Tony discuss what makes the science fiction genre so special and unique; how reading and writing go hand-in-hand; tips on overcoming challenges of writing a massive project over months and years; and why writing fiction and receiving feedback is just so darn personal. Clarke is graduating from the University of Florida’s MFA program in Spring 2025.

    51 min

  3. 13 FEB

    Getting Over Imposter’s Syndrome: The Material Dimension of Writing, Tackling Writer’s Block, and Writing Alongside AI

    In this episode, Cydney Alexis and Tony have a wide-ranging conversation about tackling writer’s block, the ways our material surroundings help define our writing processes, and how to approach chatbot use in universities today. Alexis is an Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University and has authored the following texts, among others:  –Cydney Alexis and Hannah Rule, Ed., The Material Culture of Writing, Utah State University Press, Fall 2022 –Cydney Alexis and Eric Leake, “The Stylized Portrayal of the Writing Life in Spike Jonze’s Her.” Style and the Future of Composition Studies, Edited by Star Vanguri, Brian Ray, and Paul Butler. Utah State University Press, Nov. 2020. –Cydney Alexis, ”Creative Writing is a Unique Category.” Bad Ideas about Writing. Ed. Drew M. Loewe and Cheryl E. Ball. Morgantown: West Virginia University Digital Publishing Institute (2017). This essay was published in Inside Higher Education (1/3/16) and reprinted in Slate (1/6/17)

    33 min

  4. 29/10/2024

    Communication as Key to Preventing Medical Error

    Tony interviews Amy Blue about the University of Florida’s innovative “Putting Families First,” a unique program that gathers first-year students across the health professions together to assist families (with the goal of improving the students’ interpersonal skills). Blue is the associate vice president for interprofessional education in the UF Health Office of the Senior Vice President for Health Affairs. She is also a clinical professor in the College of Public Health and Health Professions’ Department of Environmental and Global Health.

    34 min

  5. 24/07/2024

    Making Data Meaningful: Constructing a Flight Simulator for Nurses

    In this episode, Dr. Shannon Butts (Senior Learning Designer at Elsevier) explains the fascinating science behind Elsevier’s Shadow Health simulations– an interactive learning experience for nurses. Tony and Shannon cover a range of topics within a dense conversation, as Shannon elucidates why “knowing how to communicate and understanding how language works” is critical in “making tools work that help move us forward.”

    24 min

  6. 24/02/2024

    Writing History: Storytelling in the Environmental Humanities

    Tony interviews Pulitzer-winning historian Jack E. Davis (author of W.W. Norton’s The Gulf, The Bald Eagle, and others). They discuss the creative process behind composing academic scholarship: how using a varied vocabulary and sentence structure is essential; why researching and writing simultaneously is useful; and how, in Davis’s words, letting nature “tell me how it wants to be written” is a pleasure. Davis is a distinguished professor of history at the University of Florida.

    31 min

  7. 05/12/2023

    What’s the Deal with Air Conditioning?

    Eric Dean Wilson – author of After Cooling (Simon & Schuster, 2021) – shares his journey in tackling climate range by focusing on a single molecule and telling a gripping 400-page story about America. In this conversation about the writing process, Eric and Tony discuss the merits of everyday journaling; why writing for “the public” is an unhelpful term; why writing a clear sentence is an artform in itself; how to handle feedback from peers, and more. (In addition to After Cooling, Wilson’s articles have appeared in TIME, Esquire, Orion, Tin House, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and BOMB, among other publications.)

    34 min

  8. 18/09/2023

    Writing for the U.S. Government

    In this conversation, Tony interviews Jamie Lee Marks (Senior Analyst in the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s Office of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples) about her agency’s efforts to advise the U.S. President and Congress on national preservation policy and more. Marks describes the unique challenges while writing in this realm; why ChatGPT cannot do her job; and how inspiring it is to “be around people who are working on their life’s passion in a way that helps to support the American public.”

    22 min
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Hosted by the University of Florida’s Writing Program, “Write to the Point” features conversations with writing experts about the secrets to great communication. Guests on the show recognize that writing “to the point” means connecting with audiences and building knowledge bases in order to transform their communities. Available on Apple, Spotify, Audible, and Deezer. UF University Writing Program: https://writing.ufl.edu/ Questions? Contact host Tony Manganaro at amanganaro@ufl.edu

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    UF Writing Program
  • Años de actividad
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodios
    15
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