22  Medical, Science, and Technical Writing

For anyone interested in medical, science, and technical writing, this page offers a curated collection of resources. It provides practical introductions to medical, science, and technical writing, style guidelines, and challenges.

22.1 Grammar Basics

  1. Academic Phrasebank
  2. Excelsior Online Writing Lab
  3. Purdue Online Writing Lab
  4. Quick and Dirty Tips
  5. Inter-Biotech: Biomedical Language Editing
  6. Features of academic writing
  7. American Copy Editors Series
  8. Go The Distance: Academic Writing
  9. Introduction to Common Errors in English Usage

22.2 Medical Writing

  1. Health Writer Hub: 30-day writing challenges
  2. MedComms Networking
  3. Debra Gordon
  4. Armitage Medical
  5. Martin Medical Writing
  6. The Med Writers

22.3 Science Writing

22.3.1 Tips and Tutorials

  1. A Note to Beginning Science Writers
  2. Science Blogging 101
  3. How to write a science blog
  4. Carl Zimmer’s advice for aspiring science writers
  5. Six great pieces of science writing you may have missed this year
  6. Science Writing News Roundup
  7. ScienceWriters 2021 Product/Design Thinking Toolkit
  8. Diversify your images
  9. Sources of free images
  10. Connector: library of resources for science journalism & communication
  11. Knight Science Journalism Resources
  12. Society of Professional Journalists Toolbox Resources
  13. The KSJ Science Editing Handbook
  14. Secrets of good science writing

22.3.2 Science writing publications

  1. AP News - Science
  2. Undark
  3. SciDevNet Africa
  4. Eos - Science News
  5. Hakai Magazine
  6. StatNews
  7. Science Write Now
  8. Discover Magazine
  9. bioGraphic
  10. Knowing Neurons
  11. GROW by Gingko
  12. Contrary: Foundations and Frontiers

22.3.3 Science writing publications for Young People

  1. 17 of the Best Science Magazines for Kids
  2. Authoritative and popular science magazines for kids & adults in 2024
  3. The Best Children’s Science Magazines according to Dr Jo
  4. Best science books for kids
  5. Smore Science
  6. OYLA STEM Magazine
  7. Whizz Pop Bang
  8. NatGeo Kids
  9. Crunch Labs
  10. Science News Explores
  11. AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize
  12. Double Helix: CSIRO’s magazine for Kids

22.4 Technical Writing

  1. Awesome Technical Writing
  2. A beginner’s guide to writing documentation
  3. Technical Writing: Why and How?
  4. Welcome to Google Season of Docs
  5. Becoming a Technical Writer at Google
  6. Advice for Technical Writing
  7. The Society for Technical Communication
  8. How to write a great technical blog post
  9. How to write fast — or at least faster