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- 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 2010 (annual review)
- The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010 (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
- Escape from the Ivory Tower, Nancy Baron (web site)
- Am I Making Myself Clear?, Cornelia Dean
- Taking Science to the People, Carolyn Johnsen
- Science and the Media, edited by Donald Kennedy and Geneva Overholser
- Explaining Research: How to Reach Key Audiences to Advance Your Work, Dennis Meredith (web site)
- The Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication, edited by Susanna Hornig Priest
- World Federation of Science Journalists online science journalism course
