Ideas into Words : Mastering the Craft of Science docx

... got the theory all worked out. Ideas into Words 16 one To write nonfiction, whether science writing” or any other kind, is an act of intimacy.You are inviting the reader into your world into ... 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 mu...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 05:20

... 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, ... 21218-4363 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hancock, Elise. Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science writing / Elise...

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... 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 ... Maryland 21218-4363 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hancock, Elise. Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science writing / El...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 17:20

... 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. Ideas into Words 12 Mastering the Craft of Science ... to fill the basket. The innies and outies fairly fly together. I calculated all kinds of things with this theory. The first thing I calculated was the rate of di...

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... (1) the habit of Ideas into Words 26 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 even some of the ... 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...

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... gardening:Yes, one must water and 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 ... 115; for writing, 26 Science, viewed as a puzzle, 15–16 Science (journal), 68 Science News, 100–103; value of sub- scribing, 68 Science writers: education of, xii; te...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 19:15

... 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 next ... 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. Ideas into Words...

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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 ... 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 le...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... 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 5 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...

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