Tham khảo tài liệu 'mastering the craft of science writing part 17', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Ideas into Words What is your deadline All too often people do not ask for help until too late the day before or of the deadline. Too bad. I would ve loved to help them. Question number two Do you have a reprint from a scholarly journal about this work If so start there and go through it sentence by sentence paraphrasing each unit of thought in your own words. If you were sitting in my office that s what I d make you do the idea being to find out precisely where your understanding failed and surprisingly often that would be all the help you needed. Sometimes people decide that they cannot do something understand physics let us say. Then when they have to do it they can only sit there in agony looking at the pieces of paper agonizing but not progressing because they have so little hope that they never actually come to grips with the material. They are deer in the headlights. Paraphrasing for someone like me helps them learn that they can figure it out because I won t let them off the hook till they hazard a guess which is right mostly or almost right. If it s almost right we look up each unfamiliar word until they can produce the paraphrase. Great And on to the next. And so we go. It may be only minutes before the penny drops. This isn t so bad I can do this If you are afraid of your subject is there someone who could help you in that way You may know more and understand better than you think. Puzzled writers are often missing one or two key concepts ideas so big that nothing makes sense without them but not many in number. Once you locate the gap in your knowledge you are almost home. Lacking someone to sit with you you can push through alone though it s harder because all the will power has to come from you. If there is a press release you will have to lean harder on it and don t forget that whoever wrote the press release should be willing to answer questions. It s her job. Even lacking a press release however you can go forward especially if your article is to .
