Potential Books or Reports for Class Use

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Looking for a book to use in class? Try one of these texts or online reports. Most of these books can be purchased online at amazon.com. Have a book to add to this list? Send us email.

• Field Guide for Science Writers, edited by Deborah Blum and Mary Knudson
• Communicating Uncertainty: Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science, edited by Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody and Carol L. Rogers
• The New Science Journalists, edited by Ted Anton and Rick McCourt (Out of print)
• News & Numbers: A Guide to Reporting Statistical Claims and Controversies in Health and Other Fields, by Victor Cohn, Lewis Cope
• Writing for Story, by Jon Franklin
• The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr., E. B. White and Roger Angell
• The Best American Science Writing 200x (annual review)
• The Best American Science and Nature Writing 200x (annual review)
• Scientists and Journalists: Reporting Science as News, by Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody, Carol L. Rogers (Out of print)
• Selling Science, (revised edition) by Dorothy Nelkin
• Worlds Apart: How the distance between scientists and journalists threatens America's future, by Hartz and Chappell
• Medical Journalism - Exposing Fact, Fiction, Fraud, by Ragnar Levi
• Nieman Reports, Fall 2002 — special section with 18 articles on science journalism, including one on teaching it