Questions to answer before watching this video

In what ways do you see yourself as a writer? Are you a poet? A journalist? A blogger?  What style of writing is most familiar and comfortable for you? I would say I am more of a journalist because I am definitely not a poet. The only writing I fo id for class and or emails.

What is your impression of scientific writing? My impression of scientific writing is that it is mostly facts or observations, not that scientist don’t have emotion but I feel the writing is used to understand their projects.

Answer this question after you watch the vide0

How do Wilson’s ideas fit with your experience or ideas about scientific writing? It was pretty similar to what I was thinking, but he said they need to have a combination of everything.

What if anything surprised you about Wilson’s description of scientists, and their emotions and values as they fit into the process of science? I was surprised to hear what he had to say about psychopaths and that they rarely every succeed as scientists.