Comments on: What Is a Science Writer? http://sciencewriter.org/2006/09/what-is-a-science-writer/ Davide Castelvecchi, Freelance Science Writer: Physics, Astronomy, and Math Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:33:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Ben S. http://sciencewriter.org/2006/09/what-is-a-science-writer/#comment-126 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:59:51 +0000 http://sciencewriter.org/2006/09/what-is-a-science-writer/#comment-126 Science writing, to me, is a twofold joy: learning the story about a scientific process, or a scientist's research work, and then telling that story to others in a way they can understand and appreciate. We turn papers or meeting presentations into narratives that tell the reader something new, or expand his or her view of the world. Science writing, to me, is a twofold joy: learning the story about a scientific process, or a scientist’s research work, and then telling that story to others in a way they can understand and appreciate. We turn papers or meeting presentations into narratives that tell the reader something new, or expand his or her view of the world.

]]> by: James R http://sciencewriter.org/2006/09/what-is-a-science-writer/#comment-95 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:45:33 +0000 http://sciencewriter.org/2006/09/what-is-a-science-writer/#comment-95 When you started talking about the world's oldest profession, I thought you were going to say that you're in it for the money, but I KNOW that can't be true (I used to freelance). I think you get it right, at least as far as explaining why some of us go into science writing in the first place. The idealism gets sucked out many of us pretty fast though, depending on who you're writing for. -J When you started talking about the world’s oldest profession, I thought you were going to say that you’re in it for the money, but I KNOW that can’t be true (I used to freelance).

I think you get it right, at least as far as explaining why some of us go into science writing in the first place. The idealism gets sucked out many of us pretty fast though, depending on who you’re writing for.

-J

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