TAILIEUCHUNG - Mastering the craft of science writing part 3

Tham khảo tài liệu 'mastering the craft of science writing part 3', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | This page intentionally left blank A Matter of Attitude Only connect. E. M. Forster Howards End To write nonfiction whether science writing or any other kind is an act of are inviting the reader into your world into your mind no less. As your close companion the reader will share the alien cadences of your thought. He will borrow your vocabulary no doubt of a flavor not quite his own. He will be at the mercy of your skills to see to hear to think and feel to assess people and draw them out to persist until you really know and of course to put what you know into words. It requires a certain trust to be a reader. Once the words are in print however it s the writer who has to trust because the reader now holds the reins. If an author loses me I can stop reading. Or I can skip a chapter or three or skim or read each paragraph five times analyzing and underlining in several different colors until the words droop and die. Whatever the reader does the writer has no recourse. Yet how intertwined we are reader and writer sharing a universe of words. Reading I can sit with Loren Eiseley in doleful twilight and ponder a skull. I can hitch a ride as the mind of Stephen Hawking soars through all of time and space. Diane Ackerman gets me drunk on the sensual beauty of planet Earth and its creatures while Sebastian Junger propels me into danger forest fires and storms at sea and tells me how they work. A self-help book may bring hope and guidance as much as or more than information. For the moment reading I am not alone. These effects are not accidental or random. Good writers 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 same care. They connect as deeply with the ma- Ideas into Words 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 .

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