October 2014 – Princeton Writes

You Are a Writer

Stephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:25:45-05:00

You Are a Writer by Kathy Taylor This month, Princeton Writes announced an essay contest designed to encourage members of Princeton's staff to exercise their gifts as writers and to recognize those who express themselves in a particularly clear, creative, and compelling way. Some may hesitate to take advantage of this opportunity on the grounds that they are not "writers," reserving this title for novelists and journalists or other professional wordsmiths. But as Kathy Taylor, a member of the selection committee that will award the Princeton Writes Prize, points out in this guest post, anyone who conscientiously embraces the challenge of [...]

You Are a WriterStephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:25:45-05:00

Princeton Writers Talk Fusion in Science Writing Workshop

Stephanie Whetstone2014-10-06T20:37:40-04:00

This article first appeared in the PPPL Weekly of October 6, 2014, and is reproduced with the kind permission of Kitta MacPherson, director of communications for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. The Princeton University staffer looked squarely at Angela Capece and asked her question: “What kind of research do you do?” The audience, perched in a conference room in an office tower overlooking main campus, listened closely as Capece, an associate research physicist at PPPL, launched into a simple explanation of fusion and how certain experiments are aiding its advancement. More questions followed. Over the next few minutes, Capece conveyed some of [...]

Princeton Writers Talk Fusion in Science Writing WorkshopStephanie Whetstone2014-10-06T20:37:40-04:00

Persuasion (1818) by Jane Austen

Stephanie Whetstone2014-10-01T12:00:15-04:00

Critical Assessment "There is a peculiar beauty and a peculiar dullness in Persuasion. The dullness is that which so often marks the transition stage between two different periods. The writer is a little bored. She has grown too familiar with the ways of her world; she no longer notes them freshly. . . . But, while we feel that Jane Austen has done this before, and done it better, we also feel that she is trying to do something which she has never yet attempted. There is a new element in Persuasion, the quality, perhaps, that made Dr. Whewell fire up [...]

Persuasion (1818) by Jane AustenStephanie Whetstone2014-10-01T12:00:15-04:00

You Are a Writer

Princeton Writers Talk Fusion in Science Writing Workshop

Persuasion (1818) by Jane Austen

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