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Mastering the craft of science writing part 4

Mastering the craft of science writing part 4

Mastering the craft of science writing part 4

... calculated all kinds of things with this theory. The first thing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the neutron. They should be connected to- gether, if this theory was right, ... were the Holy Grail—always sought, often glimpsed, never within reach. Scientific truth is always partial.Yet, for the most part, the best scientists agree on the current best theory, which they ... off by 7 percent.” Then I remember the 9 percent. It was like a prediction for 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...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 17

Mastering the craft of science writing part 17

... write science, 88–91 Story ideas, 31–32, 34 36, 38–39, 42 44 ; different from topics, x–xii, 41 42 , 135; freshness of, 29–31; inside story, 37–38; omnipresent, 48 49 ; and per- sonalities, 39 40 , 42 43 ; ... service, 15, 18, 38 41 , 119; of scientific openness, 33 Ignorance as asset, 4 Information out of date, 65 Intelligence of readers, 12 Internet, 33 Interviews, 40 , 43 44 , 52, 59–61, 62, 1 24; and body language, ... tilize and weed. There is work to be done. But the work pays off biggest when the plants are right for the soil and micro- climate of the particular garden. Is there some subject or writing style...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 1 pdf

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 1 pdf

... intentionally left blank Mastering the Craft of Science Writing intowordsideasElise HancockForeword by Robert Kanigel THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS Baltimore & LondonFor my father,who would ... ixAcknowledgments xvii1. A Matter of Attitude 12. Finding Stories 293. Finding Out: Research and the Interview 45 4. Writing: Getting Started and the Structure 695. Writing: The Nitty Gritty 956. Refining ... StreetBaltimore, Maryland 21218 -43 63www.press.jhu.eduLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataHancock, Elise.Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science writing / Elise Hancock.p....
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 2 pdf

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 2 pdf

... 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 ... today about writing, espe-cially writing about science, medicine, and other difficultsubjects, I learned then. Others did, too. Those who came tosee the ceaseless flow of red ink as the gift that ... 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

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 3 docx

... the ma-A Matter of AttitudeOnly connect.—E. M. Forster,Howards Endterial as they do with the readers. Indeed, their curiosity andits fruits are a large part of what the reader senses, of ... 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 ... Moments of frustration and despair can be a good sign;they are an expected part of learning, so much so that ani-mal trainers count on them. They call them “prelearningtemper tantrums,” because the...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 5 doc

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 5 doc

... 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 ... 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 ... habits: (1) the habit of IdeasintoWords26 writing itself, so that it feels natural, and (2) the habit of im-printing the details of what you see and hear on your mindlong enough to write them down....
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 6 pptx

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 6 pptx

... 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 ... scientists,FindingStories33as 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 ... In writing, therefore, you can almostalways make a cliché work, because once you dig into the particulars of any situation, the clichéd quality evaporates.Whatever you find will be unique to these...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 7 ppt

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 7 ppt

... 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 ... Each party brings special 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 ... 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

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 8 pptx

... Guaranteed, there must havebeen other ways to approach the issue, so what was the advan-tage of this one? The answers are always part of a larger pic-ture, about either the science or the research ... folks, too. The researcher will not mind. In fact, the better the scientificteam, the more the leaders seem to want to credit the juniorResearchand the Interview53members—who are their future ... after 24 hours is . ” Or,“We assembled a control group of 230 people. The grouphad to be that big because X. It was important that they all Ybecause Z.” The root of the matter is implicit in these...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 9 pptx

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 ... questions and find out the answers; you ponder some more.A period of wandering in a formless void is necessary toany writing of substance, simply as part of achieving a newsynthesis. The void is more ... story. But when the manuscript arrived, all the fascinat-ing facts, stories, and quotes, the cream of the story, wouldbe conspicuous by their absence. I’d say, “What happened to the material about...
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