... watchword of the future is the welfare and security of the child.
Love of home and of what the home stands for converts the drudgery of daily routine into a high order of
social service.
The economy of ... though it is, being the product
of long research and rare brain power. This is at the service of the nation for the good of all the people, and it...
... productivity.
The body
of
theory that does this
is
called the theory of 'human capital', and I
am
going to draw extensively on this theory in the remainder of these lectures.
For the moment, however, ... contrast to the model of section
2)
has not been fully
analyzed in the literature. The text gives a self-contained derivation of the main features of
bal...
... most of them be ready to receive their twenty sail of
the line, or to pursue them should they endeavour to make off.
If the van of the Enemy tack, the captured ships must run to leeward of the ... HARDY respecting the
place of his interment.
[17] IT must occur to the reader, that from the nature of the scene passing in the cockpit, and the noise of the
gu...
... past
the point where I paid it any mind. So I sat and waited
while she finished.
Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it together
with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed
them ... left blank
Mastering the Craft of Science Writing
into
words
ideas
Elise Hancock
Foreword by
Robert Kanigel
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS Baltimore & London
For my father,...
... education, or interest in it.
Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowing
much science. Some of the best of them do, but some of the
best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to ... intelligent
questions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of a
dense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings of the National Acad-
emy of Sciences. Elise was a...
... always have the reader in mind, not only as they write
but also in the finding out that comes before. They do
their research with integrity, digging deep, and they write
with the same care. They connect ... the ma-
A Matter of Attitude
Only connect.
—E. M. Forster,
Howards End
terial as they do with the readers. Indeed, their curiosity and
its fruits are a large part of what the...
... parties,
people often tell me that they have decided they want to be
writers, and they’ll get started as soon as they have more
time, or when they have their study fixed up, or when they
get a new ... of Being that in
turn gives rise to appropriate Doing.
You can spot the best mentors, like the best parents and
the best shrinks, because their former protégés are out there
doing the w...
... on.
Another whole class of story ideas arrives from the other
direction: from outside the world of research, in the form
of a question, observation, or piece of news.To under-
stand the phenomenon then ... scientists,
Finding
Stories
33
as for the rest of us, ideas spark each other off, showing their
full size only as they connect. Sometimes it’s hard to know
what you thin...
... needs. For example: the
Insured, the Uninsured, the Doctor, the Insurance Company,
the Taxpayer, the Hospital, the Residents and Medical Stu-
dents, the Medical Teachers, the Makers of Medical Parapher-
nalia ... is the topic of
this chapter. But first, let me recommend one more attitude:
The science writer and the scientist are allies, sharing a
commitment to sc...