Submitted by Steve Burnett on Feb 26, 2009, 12:38 PM
Cathy Davidson's post yesterday responding to the New York Times article that In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth reminded me of an article I read a while back but never wrote about: the well-known science reporter Robert Krulwich's speech at CalTech's 114th commencement ceremony on how well-written narratives help to present scientific and technical concepts. Professionally I focus on information transfer and how to write technical information in a way that non-experts in the topic can understand, and I found Krulwich's article helpful as a story I can borrow to explain why I choose to do what I do. Instead of swiping from him I recommend reading his words without my edits and elisions: the speech is quite short and available as a PDF on the Web at
http://eands.caltech.edu/articles/LXXI3/Krulwich.pdf
Cathy Davidson's post yesterday responding to the New York Times article that In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth reminded me of an article I read a while back but never wrote about: the well-known science reporter Robert Krulwich's speech at CalTech's 114th commencement ceremony on how well-written narratives help to present scientific and technical concepts. Professionally I focus on information transfer and how to write technical information in a way that non-experts in the topic can understand, and I found Krulwich's article helpful as a story I can borrow to explain why I choose to do what I do. Instead of swiping from him I recommend reading his words without my edits and elisions: the speech is quite short and available as a PDF on the Web at
http://eands.caltech.edu/articles/LXXI3/Krulwich.pdf
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