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| Foreword | |
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| The Skilled Science Writer | |
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| What Makes a Science Writer? | |
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| Finding Ideas | |
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| Making the Pitch | |
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| Box: Classic Mistakes We Can All Avoid | |
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| Box: Pitching Endurance | |
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| Box: A Tale of Two Query Letters | |
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| Getting the Story, and Getting It Right | |
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| Box: Making a Reporting Plan | |
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| Box: A Science Writer's Emergency Question List | |
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| Box: On and Off the Record | |
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| Box: "So When Can I Read Your Draft?" | |
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| By the Numbers: Essential Statistics for Science Writers | |
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| Excavating the Evidence: Reporting for Narrative | |
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| Box: Who Pays for Travel? | |
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| Sculpting the Story | |
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| Box: Story Anatomy | |
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| Working with Editors-and Their Edits | |
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| Going Long: How to Sell a Book | |
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| Box: Sample Query Letter | |
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| Box: The Six Steps to Authorship | |
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| Multilancing | |
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| Just Write the Friggin' Thing Already! | |
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| Box: Thirty Books in Thirty Days | |
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| The Sane Science Writer | |
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| The Loneliness of the Science Writer | |
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| Good Luck Placing This Elsewhere: How to Cope with Rejection | |
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| Beyond Compare | |
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| Box: Measuring Success in a World Without Performance Reviews | |
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| An Experimental Guide to Achieving Balance | |
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| Box: How the &%@ Do I Take a Real Vacation? | |
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| Box: Balance, Schmalance | |
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| Creating Creative Spaces | |
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| Avoiding Domestic Disasters | |
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| Children and Deadlines: A Messy Rodeo | |
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| The Solvent Science Writer | |
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| Minding the Business | |
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| Networking for the Nervous | |
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| Box: The Introvert's Survival Guide for Conference Cocktail Parties | |
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| Paid to Grow | |
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| Contract Literacy | |
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| Box: Time and Money: Can I Afford This Project? | |
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| The Ethical Science Writer | |
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| Box: The Journalism-Promotion Divide | |
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| Social Networks and the Reputation Economy | |
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| Box: Blogging: My Digital Calling Card | |
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| The Diversity of Science Writing | |
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| Sustainable Science Writing | |
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| Afterword: Finding, or Founding, Your Own Tribe | |
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| Box: I Started My Own Group and So Can You | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Selected Resources | |
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| Index | |