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. 

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/