A Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers - Hardcover
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This text provides practical advice to aspiring science writers and professionals in scientific fields who want to improve their writing. It explains how to cover science, medicine, public health, technology, the environment and energy issues for newspapers, books, magazines and broadcast journalism. Journalists describe the special career attractions and differing requirements of science journalism in each type of media, as well as respective difficulties and rewards. They also present techniques for good science writing and working outside the media.
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DEborah Blum is a science writer at The Sacramento Bee. She won the 1992 Pulitzer prize in Beat Reporting for a series of articles on primate research and has also written a book on the subject,The Monkey Wars. Mary Knudson is a freelance writer. She covered medicine for eighteen years with theBaltimore Sun. She also teaches a science-writing workshop at Johns Hopkins University.
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