The New York Times Reader : Science and Technology

Science writing poses specific challenges: Science writers must engage their audiences while also explaining unfamiliar scientific concepts and processes. Further, they must illuminate arcane research methods while at the same time cope with scientific ignorance and uncertainty. Stocking’s volume not only tackles these challenges, but also includes extraordinary breadth in story selection, from prize-winning narratives, profiles and explanatory pieces to accounts of scientific meetings and new discoveries, Q&A’s, traditional trend and issue stories, reviews, essays and blog posts. These Times exemplars, together with Stocking’s guide to reading stories about science and technology, are perfect for science writers who aspire to diversify and hone their reporting and writing skills in a changing media climate. Holly Stocking is an experienced science writer, award-winning teacher, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Whether it is the arts or science, medicine or business, you’ll find stories that inspire while providing readers an insider’s look into the rewards, challenges and everyday routines of beat reporting. The carefully selected pieces in each Reader cover the spectrum from news to features to analysis to blogs and other online innovations. Each volume also features these elements: 

• Conversations with Times writers take readers behind the scenes to learn about their goals for the beat and how they got their jobs, as well as practical nuts-and-bolts information on how they report and write for a global audience in the multimedia age.
• Story Scan break down stories into their component parts, labeling and analyzing the elements that make good stories work.
• Making Connections at the end of most stories questions and assignments to sharpen thinking and prepare students to go out on the beat to find their own great stories.

S. Holly Stocking has taught science writing at the graduate and undergraduate levels for more than two decades. Before earning her Ph.D. in mass communication from Indiana University with an emphasis on the public communication of science, she worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and the Minneapolis Tribune, and as coordinator of science writing projects for the Boys Town Center for the Study of Youth Development. She has co-edited or co-authored three science-based books, and has been honored as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her teaching and research on the public communication of science, and for her service to the public’s understanding of science.