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History of the Kings of Britain Part 1 pptx
... Sylvius Aeneas, the son of Aeneas, the uncle of Brutus, and the third king of the Latins. 22 Geoffrey of Monmouth it not to them, but pardon it; since it is the common sentiment of every captive, ... this time Eli the priest governed in Judea, and the ark of the covenant was taken by the Philistines. At the same time, also, the sons of Hector, after the expulsion of the posterity of Antenor, reigned ... all the provinces, forced the giants to fly into the caves of the mountains, and divided the country among them according to the directions of their commander. After this they began to till the...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 17
... writer, 25 Culture of science, 32 33, 52, 55–56, 61, 124 ; ideal of open- ness, 32 34; preliminary re- search, 56–57; referrals to other scientists, 58–59; research teams, 53–54 Curiosity, ix, 20 22 Delta ... types of error, 1 32 Term papers, compared to journal- ism, 1 32 133 Theory, scientific, evaluation of, 14–18 This, that, these, and those, 125 Throat-clearing, 116, 117, 125 – 126 Thurber, James, 12 Timid ... 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 subject or writing...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 4
... off by 7 percent.” Then I 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 ... “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 ... partial.Yet, for the most part, the best scientists agree on the current best theory, which they recognize because, well, it fits. It an- swers the most questions with the greatest precision and the fewest loose...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 1 pdf
... blank 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 acid-free paper 987654 321 The Johns ... Hancock. p. cm. ISBN 0-8018-7 329 -0 — ISBN 0-8018-7330-4 1. Technical writing. I. Title. T11 .H255 20 03 808′.0665—dc21 20 020 11065 A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. ... Press 27 15 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21 218-4363 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hancock, Elise. Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 2 pdf
... 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 learn sci- ence, be ... one way or the other, sitting beside her at her desk, the manuscript on the sliding desk tray between us, I learned. I can attest to the wisdom of the writerly injunctions you’ll find in these pages ... intelligent questions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of a dense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings of the National Acad- emy of Sciences. Elise was a member of this breed; she was...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 3 docx
... terial as they do with the readers. Indeed, their curiosity and its fruits are a large part of what the reader senses, of what lets the reader trust them—a process that begins with the first sentence. When ... . . See you at the bar?” Ten minutes later, while the grousers were presumably at the bar, I walked by the room of exchange copies—and there was John Bethell, combing through other people’s magazines ... interesting about how the world works, and then another something, and another, and an- other. For the rest of your working life, you will get paid to talk to people and pass along the great stuff...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 5 doc
... 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 work. They ... 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 ... professional network as well, but the network is the least of the gift, be- cause a so-called “network” is really more like a tribe. If you are the right breed of cat for your mentor’s tribe, the net- work quickly...
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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 ... you get the picture. Spot what appeals to the visual sense. Today’s technology lets us look at everything from the eyes of flies to the birth of stars, from the bottom of the ocean to the everyday ... 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 think till someone asks the right question or offers one...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 7 ppt
... clouds of dirt stop rain falling in the desert.” “Agent Orange is still poisoning the Vietnamese, but now it’s in the food.” (These catchy news heads come from the May 26 , 20 01, issue of New ... complex issue there is a fabulous book to be written. Go for it. The beauty of case studies is that they carry the reader along on the wings of story, to which you can append pods of explanation ... 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 ....
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 8 pptx
... 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 Interview 53 large, basic chunk of knowledge; the ... line of research and not some other? Why now and not before? 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 ... your troubles a kiss and skootch them over. They will wait. Once in the room, there’s no rush to start. Allow a few moments for the two of you to get used to being in the same room, the process that I call...
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