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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