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Subject, story choosing

Choose your subject carefully. Most of the best narrative essays come from personal experience or study, and the reason is fairly obvious it s difficult to write convincingly about something you ve never seen or done or read about. You probably couldn t, for instance, write a realistic account of a bullfight unless you d seen one or at least had studied the subject in great detail. The simplest, easiest, most interesting nonfiction narrative you can write is likely to be about an event with which you are personally familiar. This doesn t mean that you can t improvise many details or create a hypothetical story to illustrate a point. Even so, you will probably still have more success basing your narrative—real or hypothetical—on something or someone you know well. [Pg.341]

There are many more first- versus second-order phase transitions, state functions versus path-dependent functions, and so forth. However interwoven, the subject can be divided roughly into two parts as presented in Figure 3.1. One part concentrates on the heat and work transferred between a system and its surroundings. The other part attends to the relationships between a system s state variables and functions. There are quite a number of these beginning with temperature (I), pressure (p), and volume (V), as introduced in Chapter 1. If the chemist chooses a quantity such as enthalpy (H), there is quite a story to tell about its relation to other system properties such as compressibility, heat capacity, and so on. Suffice to say that the variables and functions form the infrastructure for thermodynamics under the umbrella of physical laws. [Pg.51]


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