This guide provides a brief introduction to writing in political science for prospective and current students. It includes: A statement about the fields of political science A statement of threshold ...

This resource provides a brief introduction to writing in the field of Family Science and Social Work through the lens of threshold concepts. It includes: An overview of what writing characteristics ...

Kristel Tjandra is a chemist-turned-journalist based in the U.S. She graduated from the science communication master’s program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2024, and writes broadly ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It's time to step my game up. I mean that ...

Readers disagree with criticism of recent opinion pieces in The New York Times about the origins of Covid-19 and the public health response to it. In a recent science opinion piece, Gregg Gonsalves ...

A January writing "boot camp" for students in graduate science programs. Trying to make progress on your thesis or other big writing project? Looking for some support, and some new ideas on the ...

“For too long, science journalism has been treated as something distinct, something extra — the domain of specialists writing for audiences who are already deeply interested in and informed about ...

A big problem I notice in a lot of science writing and in many of my student's essays is the following: The writing often makes strong claims and provides nothing more than a citation to support it.