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

by Robin Marantz Henig

Book Overview

This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed. Some of the leading issues in today's political marketplace - embryonic stem cell research, global warming, health care reform, space exploration, genetic privacy, germ warfare - are informed by scientific ideas. Never has it been more crucial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195174992
• ISBN13: 9780195174991
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

good book

This is a good book. It has some great examples of science and nature writing. I enjoyed reading a lot of the pieces in it, especially the one on plastics in the North Pacific Gyre.

Essential reading

Doing science writing without reading this is like preaching in a Baptist church without having read the Bible. Buy it. Read it. Keep it at your elbow.

Field Guides

As a fairly experienced science writer - http://www.sciencebase.com/resume.html - I didn't anticipate learning any news tricks from this book, but it's well worth checking out if your journalistic beat is anything from astronomy to zoology by way of molecular architecture and quantum mechanics

Trade secrets galore!

With a foreword by Carl Sagan, this book is a treasure of "how to" information by the best writers in many fields of science writing.