BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3a84ec7360a178d224dca251bccd58b9341 CATEGORIES:National Webinars SUMMARY:Science Communication From a Writer’s Perspective DESCRIPTION:
Do you like writing? Do you dislike writing? Do you wish you could impro ve your writing? Come hear from a former neuroscientist who pivoted after g rad school to science communications and discover her top resources to help you write better.
Everyone can benefit from learning how to communic ate more clearly, especially in writing. Good writing is clear thinking. Fr eelance scientific editor Ellen Kuwana will provide insight into what a car eer in science writing looks like and how to get there.
Participants will learn:
This information will better position you to explore science writing, get your first assignm ent, and know where to network and find mentoring.
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Meet the Speaker
Ellen Kuwana is a trained scientist (MS in neuroscience from the University of C alifornia San Francisco) with more than 10 years of basic, clinical, and tr anslational research experience. Her areas of subject matter expertise incl ude neuroscience, molecular biology, cancer biology, and bioethics. She wor ked at the University of Washington for 14 years and Seattle Children’s bio ethics center for 6 years.
She has edited more than 400 scientific ar ticles and dozens of successful grant applications (Ro1, R34, K08, P50, STT R/SBIR). She has worked with English as a second language (ESL) authors. Sh e is an expert in plain language, appropriate reading levels, and inclusive language.
She is President of the Northwest Science Writers Associat ion, host of a twice-monthly coffee chat for freelancers for the National A ssociation of Science Writers, and VP of the Congress of Regional Science W riters Groups.
Ellen founded WeGotThisSeattle, a COVID-19 emergency r elief project, and has fed more than 56,000 frontline and essential workers since March 13, 2020. She has fundraised more than $125,000 and has helped keep more than 150 Seattle restaurants in business. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Seattle Times, Seattle Met Magazine, CBS This Mo rning, Mother Jones, High Country News, and has been drawn by David Horsey as one of 2020’s local heroes.
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