Writing Clearly & Engagingly

Michelle Nijhuis’s Brief Guide to Writing Reported Essays

Michelle Nijhuis

Time Traveling: Writing Graceful Flashbacks

Mason Inman

Good Endings: How to Write a Kicker Your Editor—and Your Readers—Will Love

Robin Meadows

Writing Young: Crafting Science Stories for Kids

Elizabeth Preston

Good Beginnings: How to Write a Lede Your Editor—and Your Readers—Will Love

Robin Meadows

A spiderweb hanging between some yellow flowers. The spiderweb and a few flowers are in focus; the rest of the image is blurred.

Explaining Complexity

Carl Zimmer

Talking for Radio

Julia Rosen

Office Hours with Robert Irion

TON Editors

Close-up of fragments of headlines on about half a dozen folded newspapers.

Four Editors Give Tips on Writing Headlines. You Won’t Believe What Happens Next.

Tiên Nguyễn

Ask TON: Conducting and Condensing Q&A Interviews

TON Editors

A purplish ball of energy with tendrils of escaping light.

Tackling the Physical Sciences

Tiên Nguyễn

A stack of antique books and a few nuts sitting on top of them.

Nailing the Nut Graf

Tina Casagrand

Colorful threads being woven on a loom.

Weaving a Seamless Tale from Threads of Narrative and Exposition

Anil Ananthaswamy

How to Ace a 300-Word Story: An Interview with Roy Peter Clark

Anne Sasso

A silhouetted figure sitting against a tree on the edge of an ocean beach.

The Art of the Essay

Cameron Walker

Close-up of a brown eye.

Like Being There: How Science Writers Use Sensory Detail

Jyoti Madhusoodanan

Ask TON: Using Quotes

TON Editors