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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Citations in the sciences are author-date, and page numbers are only included for direct quotes. This is not an arbitrary rule—this is because of the emphasis on newness in science, rather than simply ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How do you integrate writing in science classes? Writing is a critical skill for students to learn, and its development does not have to be limited to English class.

Anne Vilen is a writer and school coach for EL Education and an author of Learning that Lasts: Challenging, Engaging, and Empowering Students with Deeper Instruction (2016). Previously, she taught ...

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, ...