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<title>The Idea is the Message</title>
<shortdesc>Scientific communication differs from technical communication&#xD;in several ways. One is that scientific communicators work with ideas rather than with a product. They&#xD;present data and the inferences and conclusions drawn&#xD;from those data. The information or the idea is the&#xD;message. Scientific editors facilitate the transfer of knowledge&#xD;from authors to readers.</shortdesc>
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<p>Scientific communication differs from technical communication&#xD;in several ways. One is that scientific communicators work with ideas rather than with a product. They&#xD;present data and the inferences and conclusions drawn&#xD;from those data. The information or the idea is the&#xD;message. Scientific editors facilitate the transfer of knowledge&#xD;from authors to readers.</p>
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<li><a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles">All works in 'Articles'</a>, <a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Scientific-Communication">'Scientific Communication'</a>, <a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Writing">'Writing'</a></li>
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