A Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers - Hardcover

Blum, Deborah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195100689 ISBN 13: 9780195100686

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1997

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

About the Editors:
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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195100689
• ISBN 13: 9780195100686
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300