843: Misconceptions
| Misconceptions |
 Title text: "Grandpa, what was it like in the Before time?" "It was hell. People went around saying glass was a slow-flowing liquid. You folks these days don't know how good you have it." |
A general auiednce and an administrative auiednce are very different. Sure, the goal is the same- being informed about a new topic, but the way the information is delivered is much different.I find that for a general auiednce, reading this article to become more educated about a topic and because they are curious. However, they are not experts on the topic. Therefore, when explaining a scientific paper to a lay out auiednce it is important to make the article interesting and relatable to the auiednce. Some of the best papers meant for a lay auiednce are the ones that can connect the topic to the reader by using simple language that any average reader can comprehend, a minimal amount for scientific terms. The use of analogies and metaphors also helps a lot to translate a new topic that would be foreign to the reader but by using these elements they are able to understand the simplest form of a concept. I think that the most important aspect to a layout auiednce is that by the end of the paper they have learned something scientific, understood it, and didn’t have to battle though a language barrier.In an administrative auiednce, there is no language barrier. Science can almost be considered a language of its own because there are so many different terms and jargons that it makes it very difficult for a non-scientific person to understand. With an administrative auiednce there are a lot of communalities. The scientists in the same fields understand each other and can use the scientific words to be much more precise about the topic that they are discussing. Also, such a paper would be written solely for the purpose of science, which means more scientific information, facts, data, and results. I would say it also involves much more numbers in the text for explanations purpose as well to show the calculations and to explain the process during the experiment and its significance.Writing to a layout auiednce is important, however, because a general auiednce should read a scientifical paper without feeling that they do not have the education necessary to be able to understand it. It is important for the general public to know about the advances in science and to be informed. I find that it is going to a task to write my article to make it suitable for a general auiednce without using too much of the scientific terms, while also having the readers understand the general concept by using relatable and understandable terms.
Transcript
- [A teacher is standing in front of a board, holding a laptop computer and elocuting.]
- Teacher: Okay, middle school students, it's the first Tuesday in February.
- Teacher: This means that by law and custom, we must spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article List of Common Misconceptions, so you can spend the rest of your lives being a little less wrong.
- Teacher: The guests at every party you'll ever attend thank us in advance.
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When I took Calculus-based Physics in college (2003), my professor taught us that glass was an "extremely viscous fluid." When was glass reclassified as an amorphous solid?
Smperron (talk)
Your professor was simply incorrect. Glass never was, and has never been, an "extremely viscous fluid". Molten glass is a "molecular liquid" where the viscosity depends on temperature. 75.103.23.206 22:14, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
"Extremely viscous fluid" is just another way to describe an amorphous solid (as opposed to the crystallic solid). There is no sharp cut-off between these states. Just at some point it starts feeling solid enough, so it gets called a solid. See the Pitch Drop Experiment [1] for an example (though glass is obviously harder than pitch). 108.162.246.11 19:21, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
I had a chemistry professor in 2011 tell me that glass flowed, even citing old buildings with thicker glass on the bottom. I tried to argue against it, but I was interrupting a lecture. I discussed it with some students later, though. 108.162.237.64 00:49, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
- If you think you had a problem, try convincing anyone that weather turns into seismic activity and vice versa. I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 19:53, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Is there really a law or custom about the first Tuesday in February?, or is that just a misconception? Mountain Hikes (talk) 17:55, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
- "Before time"
- Why is the "B" in "Before time" capitalized?
- I believe "the Before time" is a reference to Star Trek (Original) Season 1, Episode 8 "Miri". 108.162.245.108 22:07, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
