Do you love to write or edit and love biology? There are a number of career options that allow you to combine these two passions. First, ask yourself whether you love scientific writing or love ...
Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical, delivering prose that evokes memories of high school and undergraduate laboratory reports. The hallmark of this stereotype is passive ...
Writing in science -- Science writing as story telling -- Making a story sticky -- Story structure -- The opening -- The funnel : connecting O and C -- The challenge -- The action -- The resolution -- ...
I vividly recall when an editor in chief invited me to publish in a well-known journal. Fresh from defending my dissertation, I still grappled with understanding how publishing worked in academia—like ...
The stereotype goes that scientific information is technical, dry, and boring. After all, everyone has dragged themselves through a too-dense manuscript or fought sleep during a slow presentation at ...
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It’s time for June’s Science Writer Tip-Jar picks. For those new to this, here’s the low-down: Throughout the blogosphere, people produce fantastic writing for free. That’s great, but I believe that ...
“Your chance of becoming a professor is 0.45%.” That’s the type of statistic that stops even the most stats-inclined PhD in her tracks. For early-career researchers and doctoral graduates, the truth ...
Brittney G. Borowiec (Twitter: @this_is_brit) is in the final year of her PhD at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, and is a freelance science writer. I’m a zoologist, freelance science writer and ...
British readers might have caught wind of a new Guardian/Wellcome Trust Science Writing prize, aimed at finding the “next generation of undiscovered science writing talent.” Since the announcement, ...
I entered 2020 thinking of myself as a science writer. I ended the year less sure. While the first sparks of the COVID-19 pandemic ignited at the end of 2019, I was traipsing through a hillside in ...
Well aware of the gap between the scientific and nonscientific communities —the “two cultures,” as British Physicist and Author C. P. Snow calls them —politicians, educators, TV producers and ...