journalism

1. National Training of Trainers
for CampusJournalism
Science Writing (News, Feature & Editorial)

2. What is sciencewriting?
Writing about scientific subject matter, often in a non-
technical manner for an audience of non-scientists
http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/Science-Writing-
term.htm

3. ScienceNews
Basically news about
science

6. Where canstudents get sciencenews?
• Science fair
• School events
• Local science community
• Make the process of learning science
newsworthy

7. Writing exercise
Write a piece of science news based on what happened in your
school

8. Sciencefeature
Human interest story that also looks into
science

9. Write for youraudience
Research,research, research
Simplify, but don’t dumb itdown

10. Responsibilities of the editor
• Stop/prevent plagiarism
• Ensure that the story is
comprehensible

13. What canstudent sciencejournalists feature?
• (What kids are into nowadays?)

15. Exercise
• Write a science feature on something you or your
students are naturally interested in.

16. ScienceEditorial
• a newspaper article written by or on behalf of an editor that
gives an opinion on a science issue

17. ScienceEditorials
• Focus on the facts
• Analysis of the issue must be based on scientific facts and
following the scientific method
• Assumptions raised must be based on solid logic and
following the scientific method

19. What issuesin your community areaffected
by science?
• (jan, please put in images of weather, health, food,
etc)

20. Bonus: Science Cartoon!
Cartoons are a great way to make learning
science fun!

24. FunExercise:1 panel science comic basedon
geekypick-up lines