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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... than the science can justify. Don’t you weasel. Note also the shades of meaning in expressions like “con- The Nitty Gritty of Writing 99 For the next hour the sea is calm, horribly so. The only sign ... another there, a third and a fourth some other place; they grow, they become rivers, and they converge! The piece ends with something new and big, a veritable Mississippi...

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... 21218- 436 3 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hancock, Elise. Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science writing / Elise Hancock. p. cm. ISBN 0-8018- 732 9-0 ... 145 Index 147 ©20 03 The Johns Hopkins University Press Foreword © 20 03 Robert Kanigel All rights reserved. Published 20 03 Printed in the United States of America on...

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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 ... 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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... 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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... 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 th...

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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 ... 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...

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... 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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... people write the body of the text first and save the opener to write last, to benefit from all the clarity that the writing brought. If that works for you, great. Others find (and I am one of them) that ... paintbrush. Yes, but the next morning you do the whole job in three hours, and there’s no need to razor the windows or scrub paint off the floor. And it’s the same wa...

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