Re: The Best American Science Writing 2003

From: Peter Smagorinsky (smago@coe.uga.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 05:19:43 PDT


This is a followup to the request of last week or so for science writing
for the layperson. p
At 08:20 PM 9/28/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Peter,
>
>This is a topic that interests me. (I am doing research on writing). Could
>you tell us what stroke your eye in the excerpt you sent us?
>
>David
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter Smagorinsky" <smago@coe.uga.edu>
>To: <xmca@ucsd.edu>
>Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 10:45 PM
>Subject: The Best American Science Writing 2003
>
>
> > from today's newspaper:
> >
> > > The Best American Science Writing 2003. Edited by Oliver Sacks (Ecco
> > Press, $27.50 hardback, $13.95 paperback). The best science writing "has a
> > swiftness and naturalness, a transparency and clarity, not clogged with
> > pretentiousness or literary artifice," says Sacks, a neurologist and the
> > author of "Uncle Tungsten," "Awakenings" and other books. This wonderfully
> > eclectic anthology includes engaging explorations into subjects ranging
> > from botany to physics, cognition to evolutionary biology --- from Brendan
> > Koemer's discussion of how drug companies market new diseases to Susan
> > Milius' investigation into the colors of autumn leaves.



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