Welcome to Introduction to Scientific Communications

Use this blog as a way to keep up on what's due in class this week, and to find helpful hints for science writing. You'll be able to find an updated syllabus and a link to the New York Times Science section.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

How to Read a Science Paper: Jan. 28

Here's a paper published this week in the journal Nature. And here's a really good write up of what it all means.


Here's another brain research paper.

Here's the write up from a science writer at MIT and another from Asian Scientist.

Here's another paper. Sounds simple and kind of boring, right? Well, here's the first article. And here's some of the fallout and more of it. Luckily medical ethics writer Art Caplan came down on the side of the parents.

Here's a video with the real story.

So, here is some advice and more advice on how to read a science paper. Here's a funny article by UW's Deborah Blum.

And, just for fun, here's a funny collection of #overlyhonestresearchmethods.

For your future writing, here is advice from the American Association of Medical Colleges AAMC on writing news releases based on science papers. And from the Journal of Neuroscience.

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