InampampnbspThe Forgotten Tribe Scientists as Writers Lisa Emerson offers an important corrective to the view that scientists are poor writers unnecessarily opaque not interested in writing and in need of remediation. She argues that scientists are among the most sophisticated and flexible writers in the academy often writing for a wider range of audiences their immediate disciplinary peers peers in adjacent fields a broad scientific audience industry and a range of public audiences including social media than most other faculty. Moreover she notes the often collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of their work results in writing practices that may be more socially complex and require more articulation mediation and interpersonal communication and more use of advanced media and technology than those of faculty in other disciplines.