Marlene Zuk on Tackling Writer’s Block (as a Scientist)

Marlene Zuk on Tackling Writer’s Block (as a Scientist)

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In 1954, Florence Moog, a biology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, published a paper in the prestigious journal Science titled “Can Scientists Write for the General Public?” She was responding to an earlier report “that a batch of ‘science writers’ have come to the conclusion that ‘scientists do not write well enough to communicate their work to the genera…