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Mastering the craft of science writing part 10

Tham khảo tài liệu 'mastering the craft of science writing part 10', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Ideas into Words place. If you think while you write you will enjoy it more and your prose will be more muscular and engaging. If you have ever painted a room someone surely told you the old painter s adage It takes more time to get ready than to paint. And you surely found it true patch the holes in the plaster sand the woodwork sand the patches vacuum up all that fine grit find a hole you missed patch the hole vacuum up all that fine grit put masking tape along the window glass go buy more tape tape more windows . . . By the time you lay down drop cloths and discover that you have only semigloss it s time for dinner and you haven t even wet a 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 emphasis readers plural. Readers come in clusters. There is never only one though one will be central. When you write you will address that key reader directly thereby rousing your social skills. The other readers will listen in and benefit from the occasional aside or joke or whatever that you tuck in for their benefit. When I write I can almost see my readers a ghostly crowd installed in my head by the city editor of the Corning Leader the newspaper of Corning New York. I was the new young wire editor hired to sort through the national and international news that the Associated Press still sent by wire then decide what news to put on the front page and only the front page because local news and the grocery pages were why people bought the paper . The city editor was giving me a one-minute training. News included the doings of President Nixon and the war in Vietnam of course and I was to remember that some people got all their news from the paper. I was to squeeze in all the highlights. But world events were just a start. People like to laugh said Walt. If something amusing came through I was to use it. And Most of our .