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 ...

[Portion of cover art of Zombie Tits, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals by Becky Crew. Please click image to see full cover art.] What I'm going to talk about here are the things that I've found ...

Science writing comes in many varieties. When writing for a blog, you usually have freedom to go as deep into a topic as you feel necessary. There are hardly ever word count limits. On top of that, ...

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, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It's time to step my game up. I mean that ...

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 a popular science book has simultaneously been the most challenging and rewarding experience of my writing career so far. It was not so much something that I wanted to do as a task that I ...

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. While there is significant continuity across academic writing in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, there are also ...

Montgomery, Scott L. The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Highly recommended introductory guide to scientific communication. Montgomery ...

Despite being one of the most important stories of the year–and, perhaps, the decade–climate change is a difficult one to tell. It’s slow-moving, amorphous, bureaucratic, and based in science that ...

I write science, but I read memoir. The pairing of memoir and science writing can be an excellent conduit for learning: What may strike a reader as somewhat abstract in science writing may become more ...

Amid the many calls for scientists to engage with the general public, there are some who feel that scientists ought to remain aloof and disconnected from the broader public. They believe academics ...