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Audience: grabbing the reader Literary techniques: scenes, imagery, characters Voice and tone Science and life - the "non-quantifiable" |
Lightman, Alan. "Smile." In A Modern Day Yankee in a Connecticut Court: And Other Essays on Science. New York, NY: Viking, 1986, pp. 34-37 and 165-166. ISBN: 9780670812394. Thomas, Lewis. "Crickets, Bats, Cats, and Chaos." Audubon 94 (March/April 1992): 94. [ Republished in Occasions for Writing. Edited by R. DiYanni and P. C. Hoy II. New York, NY: Thompson Wadsworth, 2007. ISBN: 9781413012064.] Doyle, Brian. "Joyas Voladoras." The American Scholar (Autumn 2004). [ Republished in The Best American Essays 2005. Edited by Susan Orlean. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. ISBN: 9780618357130.] Weed, William Speed. "106 Science Claims and a Truckful of Baloney." Popular Science 264, no. 5 (2004): 106-115. |
3 |
Context The writer as a "character" in his essay Are we prisoners of the wired world? |
Lightman, Alan. "Prisoner of the Wired World." In A Sense of the Mysterious. New York, NY: Vintage, 2006, pp. 183-208. ISBN: 9781400078196. [Overview in Google books.] Walter, Kirn. "The Autumn of the Multitaskers." In The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008. |
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"Lucidity, lucidity, lucidity" Reason and emotion |
Conselice, Christopher J. "The Universe's Invisible Hand." In The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008. Dyson, Freeman Dyson. "Our Biotech Future." In The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008. Henig, Robin Marantz. "Our Silver-Coated Future." In The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008. |
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Framing ethical concerns Asking the right questions |
Featherstone, Steve. "The Coming Robot Army." In The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008. Rosenbaum, Ron. "How To Trick an Online Scammer into Carving a Computer out of Wood." In The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008. |
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Share proposals for essay 3 Public health and individual patients Involving the reader |
Quammen, David. "Deadly Contact." In The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008. Patterson, Kevin. "The Patient Predator." In The Best American Science Writing 2004. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2004, pp. 189-200. ISBN: 9780060726409. [Preview in Google books.] |
11 | Darwin's dark legacy | Denby, David. "In Darwin's Wake." The New Yorker, July 21, 1997. |
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Questions about essay 4, book review Strategizing the longer research essay | Book list for essay 4 (PDF) |
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Keeping readers involved in longer essays Handling complexity |
Pollan, Michael. "Our Decrepit Food Factories." The New York Times Magazine, December 16, 2007. ———. "Farmer in Chief." The New York Times Magazine, October 12, 2008. Kolbert, Elizabeth. "Watermark." The New Yorker, February 27, 2006. |