It is a general misconception that science writing is restricted to academic writing to produce theses or research papers where as science writing can be communicating scientific and technological concepts in plain language to a wide audience. Science writing takes different forms, according to the topic, the purpose of the author and who the document is designed for. Science writing can create a thesis, a research paper, a report, an email, a conference talk, client criteria, project deliverables, a proposal, a funding application, a blogpost, a magazine article, a brochure, a fact sheet or a video script. Although this question appears straightforward but there are common misconceptions about what constitutes science writing. Science writing is writing about science and technology for a popular science and technology magazine means to write for people who are fascinated by science and technology, communicating scientific concepts in plain English to a wide audience at its simplest and broadest definition. The aim of science is to generate new and reliable knowledge. Due to the aim of science, good writing is not a luxury, but an essential skill. It is essential not only for the dissemination of knowledge, but also for creating knowledge. If one only applies science, perhaps without doing own research, one should gather and apply state-of-the-art knowledge rather than outdated knowledge. The characteristics of good science writing are summarized as:

Clear - it avoids unnecessary detail

Simple - it uses direct language, avoiding vague or complicated sentences. Technical terms and jargon are used only when they are necessary for accuracy

Impartial - it avoids making assumptions  and unproven statements. It presents how and where data were collected and supports its conclusions with evidence

Structured logically - ideas and processes are expressed in a logical order. The text is divided into sections with clear headings

Accurate - it avoids vague and ambiguous language such as about, approximately, almost

Objective - statements and ideas are supported by appropriate evidence that demonstrates how conclusions have been drawn as well as acknowledging the work of others

During the writing process one is forced to be precise in all details and it is only during the writing process that gaps in the reasoning or lack of clarity become apparent. Any science and technology article written should contain factors like: describe, inform, persuade, narrate, entertain, brainstorm and outline. Science and technology writing as a career path is totally different than writing by anyone who likes it for personal satisfaction by bringing the latest in science and technology to a wider horizon of readership which may be rewarding and useful for the readers. But science and technology writing for fun and enjoyment still needs some basic steps to be followed along the available portals (online and offline) on which the writer can submit his writing. Out of many steps necessary to make the writing more readable and acceptable can be given as:

• Reading resources to find the catching topic
• Presenting the topic in an approach suitable to the taste and level of a common reader.
• Making efforts to acknowledge all resources of contents.
• Presenting the contents in personal format and language to avoid plagiarism.
• Select the magazine cautiously which is suitable to the contents of the article.
• Try to incorporate all the requirements of the magazine’s “guidelines to authors” before submitting the article.
• Read the article yourself many a times before submitting it.
•  You can also ask for expert comments from you colleagues on the topic.
• Remain passionate for writing and do not be desperate after even a number of unsuccessful attempts for getting being published.

Science and Technology Magazines

There are a number of science and technology journals all over the nations offered by different publishers which are the platforms for publishing scientific and technological research and development results.  A science and technology magazine is a periodical publication with news, opinions and reports about science and technology, generally written for a non-expert audience. There are many popular science and technology magazines published by world reputed science and technology organizations like: Science, Science Daily, IEEE spectrum, Technology review, Popular Mechanics, Discover, BBC science news, Quanta, Wired, National Geographic, Physics world, Physics Today, Scientific American, Popular Science, American Scientists, New Scientist, Cosmos and many more.  

Some always fear and complain that science and technology magazines in Indian are not enough and they cannot get their articles ideas published. However, there a number of science and technology magazines published by many academies, institutes as well as organizations that publishes articles in almost all streams of science and technology: physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, biology, etc. The best thing about these magazines is that top researchers in the country publish articles on topics within the latest research outcomes to undergraduate curriculum, and even publish articles on specific topics that students consider difficult to understand, including new classroom experiments, emerging techniques and ideas, and innovative procedures for teaching specific concepts.  Science and technology magazines provide with everything a reader needs to know about what's new and what's next in Science and Technology.

In the era of internet “the whole world under your palm”, anyone who is interested in science and technology magazines, can search on internet and get latest information on Science Magazines, suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers, traders, aim/scope of magazine, editors, author’s guidelines, E-mails and many more and can submit the article for consideration. Some of science and technology magazines and news papers are listed here for the reader’s information in which science and technology articles are being regularly published. This list of magazines and papers is just a symbolic and anyone who is interested can get more information from internet on any magazine.

Indian magazines