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Successful science writing for a general audience should tell a story in an engaging way, thoroughly explain the science without oversimplifying, and discuss the topic's historical and cultural context. It is important to choose topics and length carefully, get familiar with the subject matter, check facts, outline the article, have a clear angle, use subtitles, and provide descriptive details. Writers should avoid exaggerating, mixing metaphors, waffling, putting all interesting details at the beginning, using a monotone style, or repetitive vocabulary. Effective science writing also cites references and facts to support its statements and narratives.

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Successful science writing for a general audience should tell a story in an engaging way, thoroughly explain the science without oversimplifying, and discuss the topic's historical and cultural context. It is important to choose topics and length carefully, get familiar with the subject matter, check facts, outline the article, have a clear angle, use subtitles, and provide descriptive details. Writers should avoid exaggerating, mixing metaphors, waffling, putting all interesting details at the beginning, using a monotone style, or repetitive vocabulary. Effective science writing also cites references and facts to support its statements and narratives.

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Science and health writing is

writing about science, medicine,


and technology for the popular
media.
It appears in magazines and
newspapers, in popular books, on
the walls of museums, on
television or radio programs, and
on the internet.

Successful Science Writing should:
have a narrative element to it
it should tell a storyin an
aesthetically pleasing and
compelling way.
Successful Science Writing should:
give the reader an understanding of
a science topic that they did not
understand or understood less than
before they read it.
Successful Science Writing should:
frame a science topic in the
context of historical and cultural
issues, of how the science has
changed over time, of the
implications it has for us in the
present and the future.
Successful Science Writing should:
be approachable for a general
audience without dumbing
down or skipping over
scientific details, with a
thorough explanation of the
science.
Choose your topic and length
carefully.
Get familiar with your topic.
Check your facts.
Have an outline.
Have a clear angle.
Use subtitles.
Be descriptive.

Dont:
exaggerate.
overuse or mix
metaphors.
waffle.
Dont:
put all the interesting
stuff in the first 5oo
words.
write in monotone.

Dont:
communicate in a manner that is
repetitive and unimaginative in
one's use of the vocabulary and
rhetorical and syntactical
strategies

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Cites scientific references,
statistics and relevant
figures/facts to bolster
credibility of statements and/or
narratives.






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