Rathnakar finds good advice on science writing

In last Tuesday's class we had a good discussion around scientific writing and there were lot of good suggestions.

After the class I started browsing the net to find out who are the pros at scientific writing. It looks as though there are many, but one writer who grabbed my attention was Thomas Henry Huxley (left). I think the quote below from his essay "On the Study of Zoology" sums up the gist of scientific rhetoric:

"Therefore, the great business of the scientific teacher is, to imprint the fundamental, irrefragable facts of his science, not only by words upon the mind, but by sensible impressions upon the eye, and ear, and touch of the student, in so complete a manner, that every term used, or law enunciated, should afterwards call up vivid images of the particular structural, or other, facts which furnished the demonstration of the law, or the illustration of the term."

-- Rathnakar Shetty