Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.
As a science writer for the Sacramento Bee, Blum (rhymes with gum) wrote a series of articles examining the professional, ethical, and emotional conflicts between scientists who use animals in their research and animal rights activists who oppose that research. Titled "The Monkey Wars", the series won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.
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Buku ini berisi kumpulan artikel dari puluhan penulis sains, terbagi dalam beberapa bagian: 1. Getting Started, berisi tentang bagaimana bekerja sebagai penulis/reporter sains di suratkabar, majalah, jurnal perdagangan, jurnal ilmiah, televisi. Juga membahas tentang menulis buku sains (populer), bagaimana bekerjasama dengan ilmuwan (menjadi co-author buku), tentang komunikasi sains oleh ilmuwannya sendiri, dan tentang persoalan freelancing. 2. Techniques of the Trade, membahas berbagai hal yang berkaitan dengan teknik kepenulisan sains. Tentang struktur cerita, investigative journalism, pengambilan sumber, penggunaan data, statistik, dan penulisan opini. 3. Covering the Stories in Science, membahas penulisan sains di berbagai bidang, seperti kesehatan, psikologi, neurosains, lingkungan, fisika, astronomi, teknologi, dll. 4. Working Outside the Media, membahas penulisan/reportase sains di institusi pendidikan, pemerintahan, museum, laboratorium, lembaga non profit, dan industri.
If I even had a network of contacts to develop, I would take the advice given in this book. If I had an editor, This would help me deal with him/her. If I didn't know that I really REALLY should check my sources, I would now know that.
The problem with this book is that it's written by science writers, and science writers are reporters and reporters are not very good sources on how to be reporters.
Still, it was free and I am grateful for it and I did learn from it, though not as much as I'd hoped I might.
This is pretty exciting stuff, because it gets into the nuts and bolts of how one goes about writing about science. The book is divided into sections, one of which is about actually writing well, one about the peculiarities of certain fields such as medicine, and one about working in all the various print markets. Print markets. The biggest problem with this book is that it was published in 2006, and the written word has been through an upheaval since then. I鈥檇 recommend this book for the section on craft alone, but the ten pages on writing for the Web left me wanting more.
This is an outstanding book for those considering a career in science writing. I appreciated the quality of each writer's contribution (great writing by seasoned science writers) and the breadth and depth of topics addressed. This book remains relevant even as science writing moves further into digital spheres.
This book is made up of chapters written by different people who write about their experiences in the publishing industry. Although I read this for a class, it was an interesting insight into how the publishing industry works
Was okay, less of a "how to" than a "here's what I do." Some compelling writing about writing in here, but a little too much personal narrative than examples and case studies.