ideas into words mastering the craft of science writing
Ideas Into Words Mastering The Craft Of Science Writing
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... 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, ... Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hancock, Elise.
Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science writing / Elise Hancock.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8018-7329-0 — ISBN 0-8018-7330-4
1. Technical writing. I. Title.
T11 .H255 ... too. But rather of a rich sensibility of respect. For lan-
guage. For ideas. For people. For the surprising and the deli-
ciously weird in us all. And most of all, respect for the
world, the endlessly...
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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 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 ... agenda and make an ally
of the reader, as Andrew Solomon did in The Noonday Demon, an
Atlas of Depression. Earning the National Book Award is not so
shabby, right?
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Abbreviations ... trigger their adrenaline. So they often
thrive as staff, goaded on by the rest of the group (not to
mention the boss). Gregarious types may not need goad-
ing but wilt in a life that leaves them...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 4
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... you live, the more of the “facts” in
your head will be erroneous. Science keeps moving and the
Todal takes the hindmost, so make sure you stay current.
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of background material, ... “un-
sure,” even when they are sure (in the ordinary sense), because
their idea of truth is so lofty. Also, they feel responsible not
to scare the public.
I well remember from the early 1980s not ... part, the best scientists agree on the current
best 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 Mastering the craft of science writing part 2 pdf
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21/01/2014, 08:20
... 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 ... slashes and XXXs do? They change
your words and ideas, develop them, reorder them, dismem-
ber them, turn them inside out, or obliterate them alto-
gether. They signify, at some level, that your ... to wade into its complexities, ask 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....
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 3 docx
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... nonfiction, whether science writing or any
other kind, is an act of intimacy.You are inviting the
reader into your world into your mind, no less. As your
close companion, the reader will share the alien ... nosy.
A Matter
of Attitude
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terial as they do with the readers. Indeed, their curiosity and
its fruits are a large part of what the reader senses, of what
lets the reader trust them—a process ... attention—and the readers cannot be fooled, because
they have crawled into your mind. If you are bored, the
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Moments of frustration and despair can be a good sign;
they are an...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 5 doc
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... two crucial habits: (1) the habit of
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Jack Goellner and Barbara Lamb
End -of- Row with the Beautiful Garden
Left Side of That Curvy Road just before the Calvert School
To write ... 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 work. They ... 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...
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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 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 ... 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 think till someone asks the right question or offers
one ... getting
enthused.
First of all, get out of your own way. Remember that you
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The challenge is twofold: not only to see the important item,
buried as it is among other research “news”...
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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 reader
along 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 ... 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 science and the public understanding
thereof—upon...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 8 pptx
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... symptoms?
What is the intermediate phase?
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they can prove, because to get the next grant, they must offer
evidence that what they propose is worth doing. In effect,
then, much research ... too. The
researcher will not mind. In fact, the better the scientific
team, the more the leaders seem to want to credit the junior
Research
and the
Interview
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large, basic chunk of knowledge; the ... Why this line of research and not some
other? Why now and not before? Guaranteed, there must have
been 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
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... inter-
views, the machine took enough attention that my rapport
with 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 words ... and you’ll get a lot
by 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 ... and the scientist can be as-
sured that you’re on track. There’s no shame in not know-
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will spot because they keep coming up again and again.
They’d be on the test because they’re...
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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 three
hours, and there’s no need to razor the windows or scrub
paint off the floor. And it’s the same way with writing.
Think about the readers, ... during the past few years as among the fore-
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most practitioners in one of the world’s more improbable
growth industries. There are many reasons why Camelus
dromedarius, the single-humped ... the close.
“We could do a lot of good for other countries where they
really do need the camels for meat,” Skidmore said.
“Where they really do need them for milk.Where they
desperately need them...
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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 islands
at the end of the world are where the dead and dying ... is the symmetry so clear at
opening 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 ... 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...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 12 docx
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... more than the science can
justify. Don’t you weasel.
Note also the shades of meaning in expressions like “con-
The Nitty
Gritty of
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waves, the events of the last three chapters the struggle ... another there, a third and a fourth some other
place; they grow, they become rivers, and they converge!
The piece ends with something new and big, a veritable
Mississippi.
At the other end of the ... grew so big it disrupted the train of thought.
The trouble with these items is that one gets attached to
them, having invested the labor to create them. Hence the
value of the bone heap: Knowing...
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