Books

Required

  • Assigned readings from books, journals and other sources.
  • FREE E-BOOK. DO NOT BUY! Elise Hancock. Ideas Into Words: Mastering the craft of science writing. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins, 2003.
    1) Go to http://www.library.arizona.edu/.
    2) Select the BOOKS tab.
    3) Select TITLE from the drop-down menu.
    4) Type in Ideas Into Words: Mastering the Craft of Science Writing.
    5) Click SEARCH.
    6) Go to the second book in list and click on this link: Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science writing
    7) Underneath the words Similar editions held by University of Arizona Libraries, click a link that says Ideas into words : mastering the craft of science writing
    8) Click the link ezproxy.library.arizona.edu, which is above these words: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web. Voilà!
  • Knight Case Study, “God and Darwin: The York Daily Record and the Intelligent Design Trial.” Available online for $5.95.

Recommended

  • Victor Cohn and Lewis Cope, News & Numbers: A Guide to Reporting Statistical Claims and Controversies in Health and Other Fields (2nd ed.). Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001.
  • Jared Diamond. Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed. New York: Penguin Books, 2005.
  • Jane Gregory and Steve Miller, Science in Public: Communication, culture, and credibility. Cambridge, Mass.: Basic Books, 2000.
  • Knight Science Journalism Tracker. Created and funded by the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program at MIT. A broad sampling of the past day’s science news, news releases and tips related to the publication of science news in the general circulation news media, mainly in the U.S.
  • Richard Holliman, Elizabeth Whitelegg, Eileen Scanlon, Sam Smidt and Jeff Thomas (Eds.), Investigating Science Communication in the Information Age: Implications for public engagement and popular media. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • Pierre Laszlo, Communicating Science: A practical guide. Berlin, Germany: Springer, 2006.
  • David Murray, Joel Schwartz and Robert S. Lichter, It Ain’t Necessarily So: How media make and unmake the scientific picture of reality. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
  • Dorothy Nelkin, Selling Science: How the press covers science and technology. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1987 (hardback and paperback), 1995 (paperback).
  • The Observatory, Columbia Journalism Review. News analysis and commentary on developments and trends in science journalism coverage in the press, from the environment to medicine.
  • Eileen Scanlon, Elizabeth Whitelegg and Simeon Yates, Communicating Science: Contexts and channels. London: Routledge, 1999.