一. 感想
关于科技类文章的写作，Zinsser的核心观点如下：
1. Both science and writing are unnecessary fears.
2. Anyone who thinks clearly can write clearly, about anything at all.
3. A technical writer can never forget that "reader knows nothing".
4. Imagine science writing as an upside-down pyramid. Your readers will understand the broad implications only if they start with one narrow fact.
而如何让读者更好的理解你的文章，他也提供了思路：
1. Use your own experience to connect the reader to some mechanism that also touches their life.
2. To help your readers understand unfamiliar facts is to relate them to sights they are familiar with.
3. To write like a person and not like a scientist can make science accessible.
我认为，针对专业人士的学术书籍，从写作的角度讲，反而相对容易，因为看书的人也具备基础的专业知识，就像我们写专业论文一样。反而是给外行人进行科普，不简单。既要讲清楚道理，又得生动有趣才好。从这个角度上讲，《十万个为什么》和《大百科全书》堪称典范。就像Zinsser在书中所述，你不要把自己当做科学家来写作，也不要设想你知道的东西读者同样也知道。而是通过引入自己的经验、或激发读者联系自己熟悉的事物，来帮助理解、获得共鸣。
同样的道理，也非常适用于讲座和教学。回想那些让我觉得精彩异常的讲座和生动有趣的课堂，主讲人无一例外地通过简单易懂、深入浅出的方式，把一个复杂的问题化繁为简，与我们已有的知识结合起来，从而让我们能够很轻松地理解、掌握，而且印象特别深刻。
因为工作的原因，我时常有机会听到外国人的专业讲座。他们总能把一个复杂的技术，阐释得格外通俗易懂。在讲解的过程中，根本没有公式、推导、论证等复杂内容，而是选用特别生动有趣的实例或类比，让人在不知不觉中，就理解了核心内容。
二. 字词
1. demystify
(1) 原文：Science, demystified, is just another nonfiction subject.
(2) 字典解释：to make a subject that seems difficult or complicated easier to understand especially by explaining it in simpler language
(3) 造句：This workshop demystifies the mastering audio.
2. layman
(1) 原文：But as a writer I’ve learned that scientific and technical material can be made accessible to the layman.
(2) 字典解释：someone who is not trained in a particular subject or type of work
(3) 反义词：expert
(3) 造句：Where the network technique is concerned, I'm only a layman.
3. tenet
(1) 原文：A tenet of journalism is that "the reader knows nothing".
(2) 字典解释：a principle or belief
(3) 造句：A tenet of me is that to be a reliable person.
4. elated
(1) 原文：I was elated by his overnight change into a writer who had learned to write sequentially, and so was he.
(2) 字典解释：extremely happy and excited, especially because of something that has happened or is going to happen
(3) 造句：I feel elated winning this prize.
5. be delighted with
(1) 原文： Its trainers were delighted with this evidence of learning, but they were even more impressed by something else.
(2) 字典解释：very pleased and happy
(3) 造句：I was delighted with the result.
6. in an agony of
(1) 原文：Innumerable people must have noticed him, but he lay there alone for several minutes, dazed, doubled up with abdominal cramps, and in an agony of retching.
(2) 解释：处在极端的……状态中
(3) 造句：I waited the result in an agony of suspense.
