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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beginning in the 1920s, when newspapers and magazines started to showcase more stories about science, many early science journalists were women, working alongside their male colleagues despite less ...

It is the job of the UP-Diliman College of Science communications team to mine mountains of information from technical scientific papers and produce bite-size information digestible for public ...