Writing

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The Writing Studio is committed to helping UF students and faculty meet their academic and professional goals by becoming better writers. We support independent learning and encourage scholarship by providing one-on-one consultations, workshops tailored to specific classes (graduate and undergraduate), and faculty retreats focusing on publishing original research. Students and faculty at all levels and in every discipline are welcome!

MMC6936 (Section 2101, Class# 24228): Science Writing (in-person)
Instructor: Czerne Reid, Ph.D., czerne@ufl.edu
Credits: 1-3, Sign up yourself in ONE.UF
This seminar-style course introduces the art and craft of science storytelling. Students will learn how to produce well-written, engaging science news and feature stories for print, online and broadcast media for general audiences. The course covers writing news and feature articles such as might appear in a magazine, newspaper, online news publication or other science news outlet. We will learn about and practice finding ideas and news angles in published research, interviewing scientists, simplifying complex scientific topics, writing explanatory prose and key story elements creatively, responding to editing, pitching to an editor, fact-checking science stories, exploring careers in science communication, and other topics. Guest speakers include well-known science writers. Note that this course is not focused on writing dissertations, manuscripts or grant proposals.
This course meets Mondays at 4:05pm – 7:05pm in FLG 0275 [Florida Gym].