Mastering the craft of science writing part 4

Mastering the craft of science writing part 4

Mastering the craft of science writing part 4

... 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, ... were the Holy Grail—always sought, often glimpsed, never within reach. Scientific truth is always partial.Yet, for the most part, the best scientists agree on the curren...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 17

Mastering the craft of science writing part 17

... write science, 88–91 Story ideas, 31–32, 34 36, 38–39, 42 44 ; different from topics, x–xii, 41 42 , 135; freshness of, 29–31; inside story, 37–38; omnipresent, 48 49 ; and per- sonalities, 39 40 , 42 43 ; ... service, 15, 18, 38 41 , 119; of scientific openness, 33 Ignorance as asset, 4 Information out of date, 65 Intelligence of readers, 12 Internet, 33 Interviews, 40 , 43 44...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 1 pdf

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 1 pdf

... 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 ... ix Acknowledgments xvii 1. A Matter of Attitude 1 2. Finding Stories 29 3. Finding Out: Research and the Interview 45 4. Writing: Getting Started and the Structur...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 2 pdf

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 2 pdf

... 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...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 3 docx

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 3 docx

... the ma- A Matter of Attitude Only connect. —E. M. Forster, Howards End terial as they do with the readers. Indeed, their curiosity and its fruits are a large part of what the reader senses, of ... always have the reader in mind, not only as they write but also in the finding out that comes before. They do their research with integrity, digging deep, and they write with the...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 5 doc

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 5 doc

... 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 ... 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 w...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 6 pptx

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 6 pptx

... 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...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 7 ppt

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 7 ppt

... 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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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 8 pptx

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 8 pptx

... 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...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 9 pptx

Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 9 pptx

... 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...
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