What the Best Science Writers Know That Most Experts Don't

Don't Dumb Down Your Science Writing; Clear It Up!
What the Best Science Writers Know That Most Experts Don't

Most experts think writing well means dumbing their ideas down.

But the best science writers do the opposite: you keep the ideas intact and rebuild the frame around them.

Four moves do most of the work. To see them at work, I did a close reading of Siddhartha Mukherjee's New Yorker piece "The Science of Identity and Difference."

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