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 ...

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 -- ...

Cheers 2023 with a roundup of the year’s best science and nature essays. Read this collection with us this December. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 brings together a range of topics ...

I vividly recall when an editor in chief invited me to publish in a well-known journal. Fresh from defending my dissertation, I still grappled with understanding how publishing worked in academia—like ...

STEM stands for Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics. There is a movement afoot to turn that acronym into STEAM by adding the Arts. Science educators have begun to realize that the skills ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The 15th edition of The Best Australian Science Writing, edited by Zoe Kean and Tegan Taylor, contains 39 essays and stories ...