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Ideas Into Words Mastering The Craft Of Science Writing
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... 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, ... is 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 ... going 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...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 17
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17/10/2013, 19:15
... trigger their adrenaline. So they often
thrive as staff, goaded on by the rest of the group (not to
mention the boss). Gregarious types may not need goad-
ing but wilt in a life that leaves them ... 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 ... would arrive at the of ce and see that, actually,
the work was not so bad. So I’d patch and polish (always
fun, the exercise of craft) , then start a new segment on that
momentum. The next day I...
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Mastering the craft of science writing part 4
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20/10/2013, 10:15
... 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 ... 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 ends. There’s...
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Tài liệu THE CRAFT OF WRITING SCIENCE FICTION THAT SELLS pptx
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19/01/2014, 20:20
... tamper
with the laws of nature to suit the needs of the story.
The archetype of this requirement is Tom Godwin's " ;The Cold Equations,"
in which the laws of nature are the background of the ... chandeliers of Louis XIV's palace at Versailles; and they think they
know what the inside of a jail looks like.
But what does the reader know of the ammonia seas of Titan, the largest
moon of the ... suit.
His world was cut off now and circled by the dark rocks. The only sounds
he knew were the creakings of the suit’s joints, the electrical hum of its motor,
the faint whir of the helmet’s air blower,...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 1 pdf
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21/01/2014, 08:20
... past
the point where I paid it any mind. So I sat and waited
while she finished.
Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it together
with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed
them ... 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 ... blank
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Foreword © 2003 Robert Kanigel
All rights reserved. Published 2003
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 2 pdf
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21/01/2014, 08:20
... 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
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21/01/2014, 08:20
... Attitude
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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
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21/01/2014, 08:20
... 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
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21/01/2014, 08:20
... 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 brings ... 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
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21/01/2014, 08:20
... 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 as needed. At the same time, they anchor is-
sues in the ... 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 . ... is the topic of
this chapter. But first, let me recommend one more attitude:
The science writer and the scientist are allies, sharing a
commitment to science and the public understanding
thereof—upon...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 8 pptx
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26/01/2014, 08:20
... 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
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large, basic chunk of knowledge; the ... 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 ... Why this 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...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 9 pptx
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26/01/2014, 08:20
... 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 ... out the other side, be-
cause then you’ll know in your bones that feeling hopeless is
just a phase. After that, you’ll probably find the process
rather fun. It has all the joys of solving the ... entertaining each other. Nor are
you polishing stories in isolation from the rest of the mate-
rial.You are poking at the stuff together, looking for high-
lights and unseen connections. The writer should...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 10 doc
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26/01/2014, 08:20
... the close.
“We could do a lot of good for other countries where they
really do need the camels for meat,” Skidmore said.
“Where they really do need them for milk.Where they
desperately need them ... 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 way with writing.
Think about the readers, ... ones? If the mother is
nursing the baby, does that make a difference? Not all the
readers would have thought to ask those questions, but they
will all care about the answers.
Then consider the pregnant...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 11 pptx
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26/01/2014, 08:20
... 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 ... albatross ap-
pears out of the east, where high dark coasts open on the
ocean horizon and the last sun ray glints on the windy seas
of the Drake Passage.
The group reaches the island. The author tells ... 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 well-crafted spiral.
The other...
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Tài liệu Mastering the craft of science writing part 12 docx
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26/01/2014, 08:20
... 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.
At the other end of the ... more than the science can
justify. Don’t you weasel.
Note also the shades of meaning in expressions like “con-
The Nitty
Gritty of
Writing
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waves, the events of the last three chapters the struggle ... pointed into the worst
of it and hope he doesn’t get blindsided by a freak wave.
And that was the start of the storm.
In the same matter -of- fact tone, Junger spends the last
nine pages of chapter...
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