This website is prepared by the students in WR 251X Ethics of Science Writing.

In this course, students have investigated what it means to approach science writing from an ethical perspective. Taking a processual approach to the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge, they have examined the ethics of science writing in relation to research, publishing, distribution, and reception. Some of the ethical questions they have addressed include: authorship and intellectual property, racial and gender bias in data collection and interpretation, reproducibility and transparency, plagiarism, peer review, citation metrics, data management, and research funding aligned with corporate or government interests.