In the book titled, Popular Health & Medical Writing for Magazines: How to Turn Current Research & Trends into Salable Feature Articles , by Anne Hart, paperback 236 pages, published April 2005 by ASJA Press imprint, iUniverse, Inc., ISBN: 0-595-35178-6, you’ll learn how to transform your interest in popular health topics such as gene hunters, medical trends, self-help, nutrition, current issues, or pets into writing salable feature articles for popular publications. Learn what to charge and/or how much you'll be paid for freelance articles on health, nutrition, or behavior that you offer to a variety of general, popular magazines and various trade journals.
Become a health-aware feature writer, journalist, editor, indexer, abstractor, proofreader, information broker, book packager, investigative reporter, pharmaceutical copywriter, or documentary video producer. Here are the skills you’ll need to transform your interest in popular science into writing health and medical feature and filler articles or columns for a wide variety of publications.
For those who always wanted to write or edit medical publications, scripts, medical record histories, case histories, or books, here’s a guide with all the strategies and techniques you’ll need to become a medical writer, journalist, or editor. Whether you’re a medical language specialist, transcriber, freelance writer, editor, indexer, or want to be, you’ll learn how to write and market high-demand feature articles for popular magazines on a variety of popular science subjects from health, fitness, and nutrition to DNA, pet issues, and self-help.
You’ll find not only how-to techniques, but contacts for networking, associations, and where to find the research. You don’t need science courses to write about popular science. What you do need is dedication to writing, journalism, or editing—freelance or staff. Feature articles and fillers are wanted on popular health-related subjects for general consumer, women’s, men’s, and niche magazines.
Learn how to write a wide variety of freelance articles for popular magazines that publish articles, columns, or features on health-related topics. The book has numerous article samples of the types of articles health and general consumer and popular magazines publish on various aspects of health. You don’t need to be a physician to write a freelance article about health, nutrition, or science for a general consumer or popular magazine.
Writing salable freelance features on health, behavior, or nutrition for popular magazines is about reporting facts, giving resources, interviewing experts, and letting people know where they can look for further information. Most popular magazines publish articles that discuss recent findings.
You’d do your research in medical journals and talk to physicians, scientists, or researchers, and then write in plain language without using technical terminology for the general audience reading popular magazines found on newsstands, newspapers, employee newsletters, and other types of publications. Browse the book at the publisher’s Web site at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-35178-6.
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