The Science Writers' Handbook by Writers-of-SciLance -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword PART I: THE SKILLED SCIENCE WRITER

1 What Makes a Science Writer? 2 Finding Ideas 3 Making the Pitch

Box: Classic Mistakes We Can All Avoid Box: Pitching Endurance Box: A Tale of Two Query Letters

4 Getting the Story, and Getting It Right

Box: Making a Reporting Plan Box: A Science Writer’s Emergency Question List Box: On and Off the Record Box: “So When Can I Read Your Draft?”

5 By the Numbers: Essential Statistics for Science Writers 6 Excavating the Evidence: Reporting for Narrative

Box: Who Pays for Travel?

7 Sculpting the Story

Box: Story Anatomy

8 Working with Editors—and Their Edits 9 Going Long: How to Sell a Book

Box: Sample Query Letter Box: The Six Steps to Authorship

10 Multilancing 11 Just Write the Friggin’ Thing Already!

Box: Thirty Books in Thirty Days

PART II: THE SANE SCIENCE WRITER

12 The Loneliness of the Science Writer 13 Good Luck Placing This Elsewhere: How to Cope with Rejection 14 Beyond Compare

15 An Experimental Guide to Achieving Balance

Box: How the &%@ Do I Take a Real Vacation? Box: Balance, Schmalance

16 Creating Creative Spaces 17 Avoiding Domestic Disasters 18 Children and Deadlines: A Messy Rodeo

PART III: THE SOLVENT SCIENCE WRITER

19 Minding the Business 20 Networking for the Nervous

21 Paid to Grow 22 Contract Literacy

Box: Time and Money: Can I Afford This Project?

23 The Ethical Science Writer

Box: The Journalism-Promotion Divide

24 Social Networks and the Reputation Economy

Box: Blogging: My Digital Calling Card

25 The Diversity of Science Writing 26 Sustainable Science Writing

Afterword: Finding, or Founding, Your Own Tribe

Box: I Started My Own Group and So Can You

Acknowledgments Contributors Selected Resources Index