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Tips for being a science journalist
A brief summary of my seminar (part of the UWA Science Communication Seminar series) on 6 August 2010.
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For the confused author/editor: Style sheets vs Style guides
What the hell is a style sheet? Well, in computer lingo, it’s CSS or a cascading style sheet which tells you what everything on every HTML page of your website looks like design wise. It’s supposed to make it more efficient to create and design websites. But that’s not what you mean right? No, it’s not. Say you are an author (fiction, non-fiction, corporate, government, whatever) and you send a document (your precious, your boss’ precious and so on) to an editor. And the editor sends the document back and a few others, one of which is this weird combination of the alphabet and square boxes. That little document is…
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AWW 2013: Interview with author Marj McRae
Last week’s review for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013 was Marj McRae’s Not A Man. This week, I got to ask Marj a few questions about her writing process and about the novel itself.
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National desalination research centre launched in Rockingham
National desalination research centre launched in Rockingham: Marisa Wikramanayake's article for Science Network WA on the launch of the National Centre for Excellence in Desalination (NCED)'s testing facility at Murdoch University's Rockingham campus and the announcement of their first twelve projects chosen via a funding round in June 2010 that raised $11.6 million AUD for desalination research. Click through to find the link to read the article at Science Network WA.
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Eureka Street has published my poetry
Eureka Street, an online magazine, based in Australia has just published Marisa Wikramanayake's poem "Manners".