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Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science

“‘Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science’ characterizes the nature, scope, and impacts of this phenomenon, and provides guidance on interventions, policies, and future research. This report is a comprehensive assessment

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Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Medical Writing: An Editor’s Advice

“Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Medical Writing is a useful companion text to comprehensive style guides for the biomedical sciences. This book walks authors through best practices for writing scientific papers

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Engaging With the Press: A Guide for Perplexed Readers and Sources

“We train scientists and health professionals to collect and analyze evidence. Yet we’re far less intentional about equipping them to credibly communicate it in an increasingly skeptical and fragmented world.”

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50 Essentials on Science Communication

“This handy and entertaining book provides the basics of goal-oriented science communication. It is aimed at career-building scientists and anyone who wants to take their first steps in the field

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Special issue on careers in scientific editing and publishing

“The focus of this issue of Science Editor is on careers and roles in scientific editing and publishing. In 2017, we published a similar special careers-focused issue, and it seemed

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Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider’s Guide

“If a scientist’s goal is to deliver content and expertise to the people who need it, then other stakeholder groups—the media, the government, industry—need to be considered as partners to

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Ideas into Words: Mastering the Craft of Science Writing

“In Ideas into Words, Elise Hancock, a professional writer and editor with thirty years of experience, provides both novice and seasoned science writers with the practical advice and canny insights

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Science Blogging: The Essential Guide

“Here is the essential how-to guide for communicating scientific research and discoveries online, ideal for journalists, researchers, and public information officers looking to reach a wide lay audience. Drawing on

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Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower

“Many science students find themselves in the midst of graduate school or sitting at a lab bench, and realize that they hate lab work! Even worse is realizing that they

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How to Get Started in Freelance Science Writing

“In this book, Sheeva Azma, a freelance science writer since 2013, shares her best advice for how to transition from science to science writing. If you’re interested in freelance science

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The Science Writers’ Handbook series

“The Science Writers’ Handbook and its spinoff titles, focused on essays and investigative reporting, have become must-read guides for all science writers. Whether you’re a journalist, communicator, educator or scientist,

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The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication

The Oxford Handbook on the Science of Science Communication contains 47 essays by 57 leading scholars organized into six sections that address: -the need for a science of science communication

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Science Communication: A practical guide for scientists

“Designed to help the novice scientist get started with science communication, this unique guide begins with a short history of science communication before discussing the design and delivery of an

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing series

The Best American Science and Nature Writing is an anthology series compiling excellent popular science articles published in the U.S. Jaime Green has been the series editor since 2019, and

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A Field Guide for Science Writers: The official guide of the National Association of Science Writers

“The best guide for teaching and learning effective science writing, the second edition of A Field Guide for Science Writers improves on the classic first edition with a wider range

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Science Denial: Why it happens and what to do about it

“Understanding key psychological explanations for science denial and doubt can help provide a means for improving scientific literacy and understanding—critically important at a time when denial has become deadly. In

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Am I Making Myself Clear? A scientist’s guide to talking to the public

“To convey the facts, this book suggests, scientists must take a more active role in making their work accessible to the media, and thus to the public. In ‘Am I

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The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to write more easily and effectively throughout your scientific career

“The Scientist’s Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and early-career scientists need to write more clearly, efficiently, and easily. Now fully updated and expanded, this incisive

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Strategic Science Communication: A guide to setting the right objectives for more effective public engagement

“In this guidebook, John C. Besley and Anthony Dudo encapsulate their practical expertise in 11 evidence-based principles of strategic science communication.” “Strategic Science Communication is the first book to use

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The Craft of Science Writing

“Here, for the first time, is a collection of indispensable articles on the craft of science writing as told by some of the most skillful science journalists working today. These

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Explaining Research: How to reach key audiences to advance your work

Explaining Research offers in-depth guidance for researchers on how to communicate their work. It includes advice on how to develop a communication “strategy of synergy”; give compelling talks; build a

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A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism: Lessons from the front lines

“A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism brings together award-winning journalists from around the world to share fascinating tales of science and how it works and to provide guidance into reporting

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KSJ Science Editing Handbook

The KSJ Science Editing Handbook, a product of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, offers practical tips for editors. Written by editors from a variety of science-focused publications, the

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