College of Liberal Arts

Writing is required in most jobs; see Professional Writing for more information. However, if you are a particularly good writer and enjoy the writing process,you may want to consider a career in the writing field. Many positions link writing to another field. Explore the links below. You can also contact Anne Marie Smith, Writing Learning Specialist, for more information.

General Information:

• Princeton Review

  A Day in the Life of a Writer
  http://www.princetonreview.com/careers/165/writer
  (Search by "writer")

Medical Writing:

• American Medical Writers' Association
  Toolkit for New Medical Writers
  https://www.amwa.org/page/Toolkit_Details

• About Medical Communications
  http://www.amwa.org/about_med_communications

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
  Working as a Medical Writer, by Sarah A. Web
  http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2007_06_22/caredit.a0700088

Science Writing:

• Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
  A Guide to Careers in Science Writing
  http://casw.org/casw/guide-careers-science-writing

• National Geographic
  A Note to Beginning Science Writers, by Carl Zimmer
  http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/24/a-note-to-beginning-science-writers/
   
• American Chemical Society

  Internet Resources for Scientific Writing, by Svetla Baykoucheva
  http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/ci/31/special/02sb_inet.html

Technical Writing:

• Society for Technical Communication
  Defining Technical Communication
  http://www.stc.org/about-stc/the-profession-all-about-technical-communication/defining-tc
   
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
  How to Land a Career in Technical Writing, by Gwendolyn Bradley
  http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Land-a-Career-in/46315
   
• TechnicalWritingZone.com
  Technical Writing Introduction
  http://www.technicalwritingzone.com/
   
• TechnicalWritingAid.com
  An Introduction to Technical Writing
  http://www.technicalwritingaid.com/