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STUDENT GIVES NEW MEANING TO “WRITE CONCISE”by Barbara Gastel In the science journalism classes I teach, I ask students to make their writing concise. I also say that, when appropriate, they can make it witty. “So, can I do my first assignment in the form of haiku?” asked science journalism graduate student John Scroggs. I assured him if he could make it work, that would be great. And make it work he did. Here are the haiku he wrote as part of his first assignment: Identify and discuss 10 helpful points in the first half of A Field Guide for Science Writers. I invite readers to write haiku about helpful points from the second half of the book. # Barbara Gastel is associate professor of Journalism and of Humanities in Medicine at Texas A&M University. John M. Scroggs is a student in the Science and Technology Journalism Graduate Program at Texas A&M University.
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