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 -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The theoretical physicist Richard Feynman was renowned for his ability to explain complex concepts to a non-expert audience. He was at times, however, less adept when communicating with writers, as ...

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 ...