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THE NEW SCIENCE OF SCIENTIFIC WRITING RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 11, 2026
FROM ANTHEM PRESS & FIRST HILL BOOKS • 18 LANGUAGES PLANNED
For more than three decades, George David Gopen’s Reader Expectation Approach has transformed how scientists, researchers, and professionals write — not by prescribing rules, but by revealing how readers read. The structural framework for writing clearly and persuasively in the English language was first introduced in George’s landmark article “The Science of Scientific Writing,” co-authored with Judith A. Swan and published in American Scientist.
The New Science of Scientific Writing: Using Reader Expectations to Transform Scientific Communication is an update and expansion of George’s acclaimed 1990 article, which has been credited with reshaping scientific writing.
“Dr. Gopen’s article is our #2 most viewed online article overall, for the entire period since 2017, with almost 148,000 views. It is certainly fair to say that it is one of our most popular, read, cited, and requested articles.”
— Fenella Saunders, Editor-in-Chief, American Scientist
The New Science of Scientific Writing expands and deepens George’s foundational work, drawing on decades of seminar teaching across research universities, national laboratories, medical schools, and law firms worldwide. Within the year, this book will be available in 18 languages. Read More→
More Titles
Audiobook: Peter Sterling’s
What is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design. George David Gopen Narrator (2020)
Neuroscientist Peter Sterling’s stunning 400-million-year history of the development of the brain.
Gopen’s Reader Expectation Approach to the English Language: A New Tweetment
(2017)
In this volume, George sets out the essences and high points of his discoveries in tweet-length, proverb-like distillations of many of his major insights.
Expectations: Teaching Writing from the Reader’s Perspective (2004)
By exploring and explaining the perceptive patterns that readers of English follow in their interpretive process, this rhetoric approaches the task of teaching writing from the perspective of readers.
The Sense of Structure: Writing from the Reader’s Perspective (2004)
This book transforms the information of the longer book into a 280-page textbook and includes a chapter on punctuation. Contact George for a free teacher’s manual.
Robert Henryson’s Moral Fables of Aesop (1986)
George has created a prose translation of the wonderful Moral Fables of Aesop, originally written in Middle Scots by legally trained English teacher Robert Henryson, circa 1500. Lauded by Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney.
Writing from a Legal Perspective (1980)
George’s first book written as a text for an advanced undergraduate writing course for pre-law students. Published ten years before the Reader Expectation Approach.
Book Reviews
“I am grateful to [poet] Dennis O’Driscoll for providing me with George D. Gopen’s helpful prose translation of Robert Henryson’s Moral Fables at a moment when I might have been inclined to give up on the job.”
— Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate
Acknowledgements, Heaney’s translation of Robert Henryson’s Moral Fables, a 15th-century poem The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables.
Elegant, intelligent and extremely useful book.”
a reference book for the rest of my writing – and audience reading – life.
maybe because Gopen shows that there are very few hard-and-fast rules.”
Near all of it was useful and I found myself naturally using its advice almost immediately.”
free of obfuscated meaning and consequent misunderstanding.”
There is a way to improve the quality of your writing — that way is through George Gopen’s Reader Expectation Approach.”
Whenever you fit the READER’s expectation more, the prose gets better. Highly recommended.”
Turns the act of writing on its head. Forget what you were previously taught.”
‘I know this stuff; this is obvious’ and ‘Why didn’t I realise any of this stuff before?’”
You can’t afford to miss any words from the book.”