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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... 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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... magnifi- cent island.” Then I considered the essay’s title: The Island at the End of the Earth.” Hmm. In many seagoing cultures, the islands at the end of the world are where the dead and dying ... is the symmetry so clear at opening and close. The reader enters and leaves this universe of words at the same place, pulled through the duration of the trip by a we...

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... you tell. In professional writing, you show. In a term paper, the reader is the teacher, who by definition knows all and must read the paper any- way. In professional writing, the reader knows ... means for the particular readers), placing evocative, in- teresting, and newsy parts to the forefront. Leave out the general statements so beloved by the teachers who taught them to...

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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 ... 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 Structure 69 5. Writing:...

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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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... 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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... 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. ... 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...

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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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