Allycia Uhrhan’s 6th graders at Truman Middle School in St. Louis started their field-science week collecting data on fish hatching at nearby Forest Park. But the trip really started the prior week, ...

Scientific writing, like any technical field, has its own norms and regulations. There are different varieties of scientific writing, including medical, technical, and academic, and scientists have a ...

What is scientific writing? -- Origins of scientific writing -- What is a scientific paper? -- How to prepare the title -- How to list the authors and addresses -- How to prepare the abstract -- How ...

In recent commentaries in Nature, 1 the New York Times Magazine, 2 and the American Scholar, 3 the scientific article has come under attack because it has allegedly degenerated into a thick "molasses ...

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 -- ...