alley m the craft of scientific presentations

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

... learn the latest news. For instance, at Pratt & Whitney, the principal means of communicating new 1 14 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS combination of these two problems caused many of the students ... should bring them back into the presentation with the beginning of the next topic. At the presentation’s end, you should 36 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS come back to the shallows and then examine ... 2-1c. That statement became the C-portion of the syllogism and the main evidence that contributed to the awarding of the contract. Statistics are another form of logical evidence, and their power...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 18:20

... the beginning of a presentation in which 14 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS combination of these two problems caused many of the students to complain to the head of the department. How- ever, ... occasion, the adage Tell them what you’re going to tell them, tell them, and tell them what you told them serves. The introduction places the audience in a posi- tion to comprehend the instructions, the ... personal 32 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS municate? Part of the problem was language; he often intermixed German and English, neither of which was his native tongue, Danish. 7 Another part...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 05:20

... the beginning of a presentation in which 14 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS combination of these two problems caused many of the students to complain to the head of the department. How- ever, ... consider the comments that the audience made: not only what they responded to, but also what 40 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS cussed in more detail in Chapter 3. Assuming for the moment ... 2-1c. That statement became the C-portion of the syllogism and the main evidence that contributed to the awarding of the contract. Statistics are another form of logical evidence, and their power...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 08:20

... 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 level, that your literary expres- sion ... For example: A Matter of Attitude 19 Many thanks to John Marcham, former editor of the Cornell Alumni News, who trained me; to E. B. White and Will Strunk Jr., who were my mentors through their classic ... available from the British Library. would go no further—“30 percent; we cannot say more than 30 percent”—till they were sure I had the message. Then they would shut the of ce door. “But let me tell...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 09:47

... too. A word of caution: Writers of any sort can easily move from journalism into public relations, but it is almost im- possible to go the other way. The habit of being accom- Afterword modating ... left, slamming the door. That evening when the family came home, all the silver was spread on the dining room table and the writer was hard at work, polishing forks. “It began to bother me,” he explained. Writers ... 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 some...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 19:15

... 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 morning that, as a matter ... to be all of them, or al- most all. This is going to be awful!—an old-fashioned epi- demic like none of us has ever seen!” The better the scien- tist, the larger the scruple and the more he insisted ... “un- sure,” even when they are sure (in the ordinary sense), because their idea of truth is so lofty. Also, they feel responsible not to scare the public. I well remember from the early 1980s not...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 10:15

... “Please ?á How many others are here? Everything seems so quiet.” “There are no others. Only the three of us.” “But?y” “I am in charge of the security brigade. I ordered the others of my command to go ... physical problem. More than one, in fact. The priest is lost, somewhere in the forbidden interior of the huge lunar crater (or ringwall) Alphonsus. The third member of the team, the astronomer Bok, ... understand the basics of scientific thought. Poets who sing about the eternal beauty of the stars without understanding what makes them shine and how they were created are missing more than half of the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 20:20

... in a room feeling relaxed and happy—did not. On this stern-faced woman and her opinion of my work, my livelihood depended. And now she wanted my opinion of something she’d written? Umm, maybe, ... gathered it together with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed them to me. It was a short essay for the Johns Hopkins Maga- zine, which she edited, but this was one of the little pieces she ... did—no knitted brows, just the blank screen of her face, the outside world absent. For a moment, the room lay still. Until, abruptly: “Oh, yes, Foreword For my father, who would have been so...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to learn sci- ence, be eager to wade into its complexities, ask intelligent questions, and shake off ... 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 level, that your literary expres- sion ... most of them long and ambitious. And always—at least at the beginning, before word processors, when I still used my old Smith-Corona portable the time would come when we’d sit down with the manuscript. This...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20