Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical, delivering prose that evokes memories of high school and undergraduate laboratory reports. The hallmark of this stereotype is passive ...

Lab reports, or scientific reports, are the primary vehicle used to disseminate and communicate scientific research methods across science and engineering disciplines. They are structured and ...

Springer Nature has announced a new AI-powered in-house writing assistant to support researchers in their scientific writing. The tool is particularly aimed at those whose first language is not ...

This course aims to help scientists, and others who need to write scientific or technical content, to tailor their writing to an appropriate “scientific register”. It will focus primarily on ...

Robin McKie: They can break momentous science news, but conferences are also ideal for meeting scientists and fellow writers – and escaping the drudgery of desk work Nicola Davis: A feature is not an ...

Beginning in the 1920s, when newspapers and magazines started to showcase more stories about science, many early science journalists were women, working alongside their male colleagues despite less ...