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I was drawn in by the "there’s a science to it" in the title, but I don't see that implicit promise (telling us something about the science of writing) fulfilled anywhere in the article, which is puzzling.

Storytelling is something that connects science and the science of writing for me. I've received advice to tell a story when writing scientific papers, but I haven't heard a concrete and sufficiently complete explanation of what that really means. For example, when describing a new model, what is the story you tell and how do you tell it? A book I find useful on the structure of storytelling is "Beginnings, Middles & Ends" by Nancy Kress. It helps me think about how to tell a story in a scientific paper, even though the book has nothing to do with that.