5 Realities of Being an Independent Science Writer

That not many will tell you

Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)
The Writing Cooperative
6 min readNov 2, 2021

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Yes, I wrote this article mainly for science writers or someone thinking of becoming one, because Google didn’t tell me much when I started. Sure, my limited experiences are just n=1, a case study, or an anecdote, the lowest tier of scientific evidence. But read on if you have no other information about what being an independent…

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