the craft of scientific presentations
Ideas Into Words Mastering The Craft Of Science Writing
... calculated all kinds of things with this theory. The firstthing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the neutron. They should be connected to-gether, if this theory was right, ... is available from the British Library.would go no further—“30 percent; we cannot say morethan 30 percent”—till they were sure I had the message.Then they would shut the of ce door. “But let ... going to be all of them, or al-most all. This is going to be awful!—an old-fashioned epi-demic like none of us has ever seen!” The better the scien-tist, the larger the scruple and the more he...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 17
... trigger their adrenaline. So they oftenthrive as staff, goaded on by the rest of the group (not tomention the boss). Gregarious types may not need goad-ing but wilt in a life that leaves them ... and fer-tilize and weed. There is work to be done. But the work paysoff biggest when the plants are right for the soil and micro-climate of the particular garden.Is there some subject or writing ... would arrive at the of ce and see that, actually, the work was not so bad. So I’d patch and polish (alwaysfun, the exercise of craft) , then start a new segment on thatmomentum. The next day I...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 4
... off by 7 percent.”Then I remember the 9 percent. It was like a predictionfor me: I went home and got this theory that says the neu-tron decay should be off by 9 percent, and they tell me the next ... “un-sure,” even when they are sure (in the ordinary sense), becausetheir idea of truth is so lofty. Also, they feel responsible notto scare the public.I well remember from the early 1980s not ... part, the best scientists agree on the currentbest theory, which they recognize because, well, it fits. It an-swers the most questions with the greatest precision and the fewest loose ends. There’s...
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Tài liệu THE CRAFT OF WRITING SCIENCE FICTION THAT SELLS pptx
... tamperwith the laws of nature to suit the needs of the story. The archetype of this requirement is Tom Godwin's " ;The Cold Equations,"in which the laws of nature are the background of the ... chandeliers of Louis XIV's palace at Versailles; and they think theyknow what the inside of a jail looks like.But what does the reader know of the ammonia seas of Titan, the largestmoon of the ... suit.His world was cut off now and circled by the dark rocks. The only soundshe knew were the creakings of the suit’s joints, the electrical hum of its motor, the faint whir of the helmet’s air blower,...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 1 pdf
... past the point where I paid it any mind. So I sat and waitedwhile she finished.Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it togetherwith one or two others and, still not looking up, passedthem ... did—no knitted brows, just the blank screen of her face, the outside world absent. For a moment, the room lay still. Until, abruptly: “Oh, yes,ForewordFor my father,who would have been so ... blank©2003 The Johns Hopkins University PressForeword © 2003 Robert KanigelAll rights reserved. Published 2003Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper987654321 The Johns...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 2 pdf
... interest in it.Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowingmuch science. Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to learn sci-ence, be ... one way or the other, sitting beside her at her desk, the manuscript on the sliding desk tray between us, I learned.I can attest to the wisdom of the writerly injunctionsyou’ll find in these pages ... intelligentquestions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of adense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings of the National Acad-emy of Sciences. Elise was a member of this breed; she was...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 3 docx
... Attitude5terial as they do with the readers. Indeed, their curiosity andits fruits are a large part of what the reader senses, of whatlets the reader trust them—a process that begins with the first sentence.When ... . . See you at the bar?” Ten minutes later,while the grousers were presumably at the bar, I walked by the room of exchange copies—and there was John Bethell,combing through other people’s magazines ... interesting about how the worldworks, and then another something, and another, and an-other. For the rest of your working life, you will get paid totalk to people and pass along the great stuff...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 5 doc
... of Being that inturn 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 theredoing the work. They ... parties,people often tell me that they have decided they want to bewriters, and they’ll get started as soon as they have moretime, or when they have their study fixed up, or when theyget a new ... professionalnetwork as well, but the network is the least of the gift, be-cause a so-called “network” is really more like a tribe. If youare the right breed of cat for your mentor’s tribe, the net-work quickly...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 6 pptx
... whole class of story ideas arrives from the otherdirection: from outside the world of research, in the form of a question, observation, or piece of news.To under-stand the phenomenon then brings ... you get the picture.Spot what appeals to the visual sense. Today’s technology lets uslook at everything from the eyes of flies to the birth of stars,from the bottom of the ocean to the everyday ... as for the rest of us, ideas spark each other off, showing theirfull size only as they connect. Sometimes it’s hard to knowwhat you think till someone asks the right question or offersone...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 7 ppt
... it. The beauty of case studies is that they carry the readeralong on the wings of story, to which you can append pods of explanation as needed. At the same time, they anchor is-sues in the ... 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 acommitment to science and the public understandingthereof—upon...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 8 pptx
... too. The researcher will not mind. In fact, the better the scientificteam, the more the leaders seem to want to credit the juniorResearchand the Interview53large, basic chunk of knowledge; the ... yourtroubles a kiss and skootch them over. They will wait.Once in the room, there’s no rush to start. Allow a fewmoments for the two of you to get used to being in the same room, the process that I call ... Why this line of research and not someother? Why now and not before? Guaranteed, there must havebeen other ways to approach the issue, so what was the advan-tage of this one? The answers are...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 9 pptx
... inter-views, the machine took enough attention that my rapportwith the other person suffered, plus I often lost track of the content. The problem is that, when I’m typing at the speed of speech, the ... out the other side, be-cause then you’ll know in your bones that feeling hopeless isjust a phase. After that, you’ll probably find the processrather fun. It has all the joys of solving the ... entertaining each other. Nor areyou polishing stories in isolation from the rest of the mate-rial.You are poking at the stuff together, looking for high-lights and unseen connections. The writer should...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 10 doc
... the close.“We could do a lot of good for other countries where theyreally do need the camels for meat,” Skidmore said.“Where they really do need them for milk.Where theydesperately need them ... paintbrush.Yes, but the next morning you do the whole job in threehours, and there’s no need to razor the windows or scrubpaint off the floor. And it’s the same way with writing.Think about the readers, ... ones? If the mother isnursing the baby, does that make a difference? Not all the readers would have thought to ask those questions, but theywill all care about the answers.Then consider the pregnant...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 11 pptx
... magnifi-cent island.”Then I considered the essay’s title: The Island at the End of the Earth.” Hmm. In many seagoing cultures, the islandsat the end of the world are where the dead and dying ... albatross ap-pears out of the east, where high dark coasts open on the ocean horizon and the last sun ray glints on the windy seas of the Drake Passage. The group reaches the island. The author tells ... is the symmetry so clear atopening and close. The reader enters and leaves this universe of words at the same place, pulled through the duration of the trip by a well-crafted spiral. The other...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 12 docx
... another there, a third and a fourth some otherplace; they grow, they become rivers, and they converge! The piece ends with something new and big, a veritableMississippi.At the other end of the ... more than the science canjustify. Don’t you weasel.Note also the shades of meaning in expressions like “con- The NittyGritty of Writing99waves, the events of the last three chapters the struggle ... pointed into the worst of it and hope he doesn’t get blindsided by a freak wave.And that was the start of the storm.In the same matter -of- fact tone, Junger spends the lastnine pages of chapter...
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