Ideas Into Words Mastering The Craft Of Science Writing

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... 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 sci...

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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 ... 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...

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... Matter of Attitude 9 This page intentionally left blank 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 ... attention—and the readers cannot be fooled, because they have crawled into your mind. If you are bored, the Ideas into Words 2 reader will be bored. If you are skating on thi...

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... habits: (1) the habit of Ideas into Words 26 writing itself, so that it feels natural, and (2) the habit of im- printing the details of what you see and hear on your mind long enough to write them down. ... a few feature ideas and go present them to the editor. (Make sure Ideas into Words 24 your ideas are congenial with material from the last several is- sue...

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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 ... 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...

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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 ... think? Well, for Ideas into Words 40 every complex issue there is a fabulous book to be written. Go for it. The beauty of case studies is that they carr...

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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 Intervi...

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