This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It's time to step my game up. I mean that ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

Alex Viveros is a Spring 2025 science writing intern at Science News. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology and Community Health from Tufts University and a master’s degree in science writing from ...

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 ...

This guide provides a brief introduction to writing in political science for prospective and current students. It includes: A statement about the fields of political science A statement of threshold ...

What can scientists learn from science writers about storytelling and writing? Science writers and scientists share some core goals in common. The aim of any storytelling or writing, no matter who you ...

Kristel Tjandra is a chemist-turned-journalist based in the U.S. She graduated from the science communication master’s program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2024, and writes broadly ...

What qualifies an essay for each year’s “best of” list? What do last year’s stories tell us about our present and future? And what might we expect to see in next year’s roundup? The editors of this ...

Before pivoting her career into science journalism, Tjandra was a postdoctoral scholar in the emergency medicine department at Stanford. She holds a doctorate in chemistry and a bachelor’s degree in ...