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 "If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward". 

-Thomas A. Edison

 
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Non-Fictional Prose Course

Anne Dalke

Paper #3

 What is Science Writing?

(And Why Does The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Not Count?)

 Having been in Facing Facts, a course on non-fiction prose, it seems silly to propose that there are any definite characteristics that make something Science Writing. We have been barely able to say, for certain, what makes something non-fiction—other than not being fiction—and if Science Writing is not fiction, what does that mean?

          I am not a science person. I have never really enjoyed learning about scientific processes or methods,

and I do not gravitate to scientific writing when I am at a bookstore. But, I was assigned to read “The

Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” which is considered science writing. Initially, I thought that I would have no

interest or connection to this book, seeing as I have a clear disconnect with science. To my surprise, I

connected to the story of Henrietta Lacks like no other novel I have read before. Henrietta Lacks was a poor

African-American woman, whose cells were taken from her during the Jim Crow era. Her cells were cloned and

 I set out trying to write this paper over a month ago.  I had a pretty basic question, what do we read to children and why?  When my first attempt at finding material supporting reading nonfiction to children was fruitless, I turned to writings on children’s imaginations and imaginative play- specifically Barbie and her role in the formation of a young girl’s imagination.  While Barbie’s role in role in imaginative play is interesting, my original question was still unanswered.  Since the title of the class is Nonfiction Prose I felt that I should be addressing the reading of Nonfiction to children; but as o

Part I: Fair Use and Its Scope

 Ethnography: the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies (Wordnet).