Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 13 ppt

... knowledge that could have confused the picture: the other causes of high blood pressure, for example; the other part of the kidney problem; the names of the various parts of the kidney’s cir- culatory ... but they aren’t as effective in the kidneys. Part of the problem lies in the kidneys’ unusual design. Blood enters the organs via arteries and then fans o...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... 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 expertise to the table .The science writer knows how to translate science for the public, while the scientist knows the sci...

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... Guaranteed, there must have been 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 scientific team, the more the leaders seem to want to credit the junior Research and the Inter...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... 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 ... questions and find out the answers; you ponder some more. A period of wandering in a formless void is necessary to any writing of substance, simply as part of achi...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... 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 we...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... de-emphasize should go in the middle of the sentence (and paragraph). The middle of the sen- tence is the place for necessary nothings such as these: however (a slalom flag to mark the unexpected) Dr. ... chap- ter got pitched out. Often the hard part is less the writing than the think- ing, but everyone meets a hurdle from time to time. What to do depends on your par...

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... newsy parts to the forefront. Leave out the general statements so beloved by the teachers who taught them to you; rather, build your writing like a sculpture, fit- ting together chunks of solid ... yet, start to work with them on the day of the talk, while you’re still excited. Otherwise the new ideas will evanesce, cast off as wrong or irrelevant by your older mindset, the...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... intentionally 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, who would ... Maryland 21218-4363 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hancock, Elise. Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science writ...

Ngày tải lên: 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 ... today about writing, espe- cially writing about science, medicine, and other difficult subjects, I learned then. Others did, too. Those who came to see the ceaseless flow of red...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20