Writing Clearly & Engagingly

Image of the cover of The Best Science Stories and How They Work and a list of a few of the book's contributors: Mary Roach, Ben Goldfarb, Sabrina Imbler, Ashley Smart, Bijal Trivedi, and Ed Yong.

An Invitation to Scribble in the Margins of The Best Science Stories and How They Work

Siri Carpenter

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Isotopes, Archaea, and Cold-Water Physics—How to Sell Obscure Science Stories to Editors and Readers

William von Herff

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Building Bridges: Crafting Analogies to Help Guide Your Readers

Claudia López Lloreda

NYU SHERP Students Connect Art and Science in Magazine Issue for Young Readers

Carolyn Wilke

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How to Deal with a Difficult Edit

Giuliana Viglione

Illustration of a man standing next to a hole in the ground that's in the shape of a speech bubble; the hole is filled with red spiky barbs, and the man appears uncertain.

Eradicating Ableist Language Yields More Accurate and More Humane Journalism

Marion Renault

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Using the Ladder of Abstraction to Elevate Science Stories

Jyoti Madhusoodanan

Pop art style comics panel of a woman whispering a secret into the ear of another woman.

The Secret to Never Writing a First Draft

Siri Carpenter

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Writing Opinion Pieces as a Journalist

Pratik Pawar

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Mathematics Reporting: An Uncrowded Niche for Writers

Erica Klarreich

John Branch Forms a Rich Story Out of Fog’s Hazy Future

Shi En Kim

An array of red-orange lilies on a greenhouse table.

How to Cultivate Narrative in Stories of All Lengths

Marion Renault

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How to Break into English-Language Media as a Non-Native-English Speaker

Humberto Basilio

A child wearing cardboard airplane wings and a cloth helmet and goggles stands in a field with one arm thrust upward, as if preparing for flight.

Speculative Journalism Blends Fact and Fiction to Get to the Truth

Shi En Kim

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Getting Personal: When and How to Write Yourself into Your Story

Adela Wu

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Making Your Science Writing Sing: Craft Lessons from Poetry

Bradley Allf

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Synthesizing Ideas to Write with Authority

Julia Rosen

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Serving Up Snippets of Science in Short Videos

Carolyn Wilke