Name: A Field Guide for Science Writers By Deborah Blum
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A Field Guide for Science Writers by Deborah Blum

In A Field Guide for Science Writers, the official guide of the National Association of Science Writers, budding journalists and veteran reporters have a superb roadmap to this exciting area of journalism. Here some three dozen of the best known science writers in America share their hard-earned knowledge on how they do their job. Filled with anecdotes and down-to-earth, practical information, this book will be a bible for the would-be and jobbing science writer.

PART I: GETTING STARTED; 1. Introduction; 2. Covering Science for Newspapers; 3. Writing Science for Magazines; 4. Writing for Trade Journals and Science Journals; 5. Broadcast Science Journalism; 6. Writing Books on Science Topics; PART II: TECHNIQUES OF THE TRADE; 7. Introduction; 8. Telling a Good Tale; 9. Investigative Science Journalism; 10. Using Sources; 11. Coping with Statistics; 12. Writing Articles from Science Journals,; 13. Scientists who Write about Science for the Public,; 14. Science Opinion Writing,; PART III: COVERING THE STORIES IN SCIENCE; 15. Critical Coverage of Public Health and Government,; 16. Reporting on Biology of Behavior,; 17. Covering Infectious Diseases,; 18. Reporting on Neuroscience,; 19. Toxins and Risk Reporting,; 20. Environmental Writing,; 21. Covering Earth Sciences,; 22. Covering Physics,; 23. Technology Writing,; 24. Writing about Astronomy,; PART IV: WORKING OUTSIDE THE MEDIA; 25. Introduction,; 26. Colleges and Unversities,; 27. Government Agencies,; 28. Nonprofits, Museum, and Small Research Laboratories,; PART V: PRACTICAL MATTERS; 30. Journalist and Scientist Co-Authors,; 31. When Your Office is in Your Home

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9780195124941

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0195124944

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A Field Guide for Science Writers by Deborah Blum

Author

Deborah Blum

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Oxford University Press Inc

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19981210

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302

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