In The New Science Journalists, Editors Ted Anton and Rick McCourt have gathered the best of the new science writing into one illuminating volume. What is new about the work of these journalists lies... This description may be from another edition of this product.
My wife bought this for me to read in hospital. It was an inspired choice. The quality of writing is uniformly excellent, though the writing styles are very diverse.Almost all of the articles avoid the standard trap of science writing: the idea that the science itself is not interesting, so just write about the personalities. These are serious writers, seriously applying their considerable skills towards making hard, important science understandable.I was sufficiently impressed by these writers that right now I am researching the Masters in Science Writing courses that are mentioned in the introduction.
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