Picking up Some Side Projects


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A university offers many internal avenues for aspiring science writers to practice and learn

One of the first worries I had once I had decided to try to follow a path of science writing was "I really haven’t written much non-technical stuff." I knew that applying for writing programs or fellowships would require me to send in writing samples, preferably published ones, and I wondered what I could use to display my talents (I didn’t think my recently submitted article to the Journal of Bacteriology would be engrossing enough). Fortunately, having a strong academic science background can overcome a few deficiencies on the writing side, but having some demonstrated writing would have given me an extra boost.