Five top science book writers offer advice for budding authors in a series of interviews in Nature's Books & Arts section. Peter Atkins reveals the hard work behind a successful textbook; Carl Zimmer ...

Introduction. The following article, which originally appeared in Writer's Digest (10:27-29, February 1930), surely qualifies as the first article ever published on how to write science fiction. To my ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

A University of Wyoming faculty member wants to help college students become better writers of science by giving academics the tools necessary to do so. Bethann Garramon Merkle, a professor of ...