A Field Guide for Science Writers
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-512494-1 (ISBN)
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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.
Deborah Blum is a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She won the 1992 Pulitzer prize in Beat Reporting for a series of articles on primate research and has also written a book on the subject, The Monkey Wars. Mary Knudson is a freelance writer. She covered medicine for eighteen years with the Baltimore Sun. She also teaches a science-writing workshop at Johns Hopkins University.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.2.1999 |
|---|---|
| Co-Autor | Mary Knudson |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-512494-4 / 0195124944 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-512494-1 / 9780195124941 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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