Reply To: turn heat into electricity

[Patientman]

asymmetric_implosion wrote: annodomini2:

… written medium because the reader can re-read the section to better understand the details. As I mentioned above, I think I would assign a rank or a grade to each section to give the reader a heads up before they start a section.

Can you remember the first time someone described the nuclear atom reaction of pool balls. That was as basic as you could get for the world to understand what happens when you split and atom. It was classic, using analogy gives people something to relate to. Each time you finish a section try to put it into a written perspective. Use the outline tools from the book, “Made to Stick”.

– Simplest core of the concept (brake it down for each level of your audience. Top down or bottom up)

– Unexpected – Think of something such as George Loewenstein’s gap theory of curiosity, which says that curiosity comes from a
gap between what we know and what we want to know.

– Concrete – Ground your reader in reality by avoiding abstraction and extensive conceptual language.

– Credible – Give them a statistic that relates in human terms “odds of winning the lottery vs getting struck by lightening”

– Emotional – The cost of energy…. in pictures and stories

– Story – Wrap up the entire above statements into personal stories that relate to the subject.

These notes are useful to the final script development. As long as your going about the process, you might as well write down thoughts.