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Ideas Into Words Mastering The Craft Of Science Writing
... school teacher
who taught the tell’em, tell’em, tell’em method: Tell ’em
what you’re gonna tell ’em (opener), then tell ’em (the body
of the piece), then tell ’em what you told ’em (the closer).
That ... piece, the pace slows as the
matter complexifies (part of what makes it interesting, inter-
esting, interesting). The writer touches in subtleties of color
and detail. In th...
Mastering the craft of science writing part 17
... with the
material. They are deer in the headlights.
Paraphrasing for someone like me helps them learn that
they can figure it out, because I won t let them off the hook
till they hazard a guess—which ... say. Then, when they have to do it,
they can only sit there in agony looking at the pieces of
paper—agonizing but not progressing, because they have so
little hope that they never a...
Mastering the craft of science writing part 4
... 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 a satisfactory click, ... Matter
of Attitude
15
The passage begins as three of Feynman’s colleagues at the
California Institute of Technology tell him that the evidence
“is so mixed up that...
CHAPTER 5 The Logic of Group Behavior In Business and Elsewhere
... means that even if there is no resistance on
the part of the people to be organized, there will be costs associated with getting them
together or having them work at the same time for the same ...
the faster they got the cargo up the river, and they had hired the brute with the whip to
eliminate the temptation each would otherwise have to slack off.
The missionary...
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... the page, gathered it together
with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed
them to me. It was a short essay for the Johns Hopkins Maga-
zine, which she edited, but this was one of ... of the little pieces
she wrote herself.What, she wanted to know, did I think
of it?
Oh, it was fine, I too quickly said after reading it, then
paused. I was a freelance writer, of the...
Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 2 pdf
... vanity, no pettiness, no person-
alities. There were only the words, and the ideas they ex-
pressed, that were our job, together, to get right. Nothing
else mattered. And everything that mattered ... 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 learn sci-
ence, be eager to wade into its...
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... digging deep, and they write
with the same care. They connect as deeply with the ma-
A Matter of Attitude
Only connect.
E. M. Forster,
Howards End
terial as they do with the readers. Indeed, their ... because the frustration means that the
creature is about to get it.
Neurologists have a saying: “Neurons that fire together
wire together,” and they mean that literally. When a group...
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... after the precession of the equinoxes, or some-
thing. When I was still an editor, a few would even say they’d
get started when they had an assignment, then look at me
with bright-eyed expectancy.
Even ... is remembering what people tell you. Even if you can-
not take notes in the moment, it’s often useful to write
things down the moment you are safely alone, while you
still remembe...
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... And there were people who were skin and
bones yet would not eat because they saw themselves as fat.
Eventually, they could not eat, and they sometimes died.Well!
We sat there with our mouths ... benefits were not to be restricted by
patents. That was in 1983.
The culture of scientific openness has since been modi-
fied. For example, certain discoveries get published only after
the patents...