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  One of the things I do - Science and technology writing
Writing is a personal talent and that is why this page certainly has to use the "I" form.
I - Angelina Souren - often write when people ask
me to because they  like my style and because I understand many topics in science and technology. I also often
write simply because I want to. Below are some examples.
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Like so many other people, I started writing stories and articles in grade school and wrote for my grade school's
newspaper. I first managed to get published nationally when I was in my mid-teens; it was a letter regarding a play by
G.B. Shaw, in a national radio and TV guide.
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One of my letters to the women's magazine Libelle
caught its staff's attention. It resulted in an item in that
magazine (about my mother, who died in February 1975 after years of serious illness) and encouragement to write more.
In the 1980s, almost all my letters-to-the-editor were published in Dutch daily
De Volkskrant, most on
Saturday. Many of those letters addressed topics like incest and violence against women and children.
My first financially rewarded article
was one about my cat Tim, in the women's magazine Viva.
When I was finalizing my M.Sc., I enrolled in
evening classes in journalism and PR at the School voor de Journalistiek.
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The first scientific manuscript I wrote and submitted - I was the sole author - managed to get into review
with
Science. I was asked to resubmit,
but my second version was rejected and referred to a more specialized journal.
I later rewrote the topic into a new article, a comment, which was then accepted without a single revision by
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,
a high-ranking scientific journal
(description).
It was published as a
discussion with top scientists from
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. I haven't
submitted any "proper" scientific manuscripts to any journals since, but have
done plenty of paid writing instead.
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Until I moved to the UK, I wrote and co-wrote snappy articles for large international engineering companies
(notably ARCADIS). I interviewed people
by phone, by e-mail and on location. I would research the topic, when necessary, and produce articles about
for instance how to deal with the threat of bioterrorism and about energy production from waste (biogas).
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From a scientist's perspective, I write or co-author write articles for the international newsletter of the
Geochemical Society. Those articles are occasionally used as
course materials in graduate teaching (the one on fluid inclusions) or forwarded around the world and entered up in
databases (one about the chemistry of cyanide in the environment).
I also used
to write for the newsletter of the
Environmental Chemistry Section of the
Royal Dutch Chemical Society
(of which I was also a board member).
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