mastering the craft of science writing

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

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... 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 style ... 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 ... splitting.i. Writing was not for enjoying.After schooling like that, it’s no wonder that many of us tenseup when we sit down to write. But fortunately, the How of writing is not the heart of the matter,...

Mastering the craft of science writing part 4

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... 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...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 1 pdf

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... Maryland 21218-4363www.press.jhu.eduLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataHancock, Elise.Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science writing / Elise Hancock.p. cm.ISBN 0-8018-7329-0 ... class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" Ideas into Words Mastering the Craft of Science Writing intowordsideasElise HancockForeword by Robert Kanigel THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS Baltimore & ... 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...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 2 pdf

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... education, or 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 ... 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 ... 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...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 3 docx

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... nosy.A Matter of 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 ... always have the reader in mind, not only as they writebut also in the ﬁnding out that comes before. They dotheir research with integrity, digging deep, and they writewith the same care. They connect ... . . 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...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 5 doc

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... 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...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 6 pptx

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... on.Another 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 ... of stars,from the bottom of the ocean to the everyday ﬂutter of the human heart. Unseen worlds are daily becoming visible.These stories have special appeal, not only because of theirnovelty ... 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...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 7 ppt

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... 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 ... 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 ... expertiseto the table .The science writer knows how to translate science for the public, while the scientist knows the sci-ence. Whenever you start writing about any particular piece of research,...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 8 pptx

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... 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 ... 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 ... fewmoments for the two of you to get used to being in the same room, the process that I call “dog-sniffing.” Dogs needto sniff each other, and people need to ask whether you hadtrouble finding the building,...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 9 pptx

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... 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 ... and you’ll get a lotby osmosis. Science, the journal of the American Association for the Ad-vancement of Science, is also weekly, and its front section of science news is without peer. Because ... agree. On the otherhand, if you have thought to the point of boredom, youcould be writing in regurgitation mode, which is dull foryou and dull for readers. Best, if you can get there, is the middle...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 10 doc

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... 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, ... 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 ... another opener, by Cullen Murphy, from “Lulu, Queen of the Desert” (The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2000,reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly), which relies largely on aﬁllip of...

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 11 pptx

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... 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...