Biomedical subjects

Nenad Raos

Publications and source records attributed to Nenad Raos.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2002

[How to master speaking skills (and maintain a good delivery)].

Rhetoric, a very popular skill among ancient Greeks and Romans, has become nearly extinct among the modern scientists, mainly due to the abundance of inexpensive textbooks, scientific journals and computers. With this article the author intends to fill the gap in the education of Croatian scientific community by presenting the basics of rhetoric, particularly its application in delivering scientific lectures. This article addresses the classical five-step scheme for preparing a speech (quidditas, compositio, eloquentio, recapitulatio, and actio) and comments on the most frequent errors observed in practice. These are further illustrated in a table listing the most frequent typographic and speech errors and their correct forms.

Communication↗

PubMed2002

[How to popularize science].

There are three aims of popularizing science: one, to reduce sciencephobia in general population; two, to help the youth in their choice of career; and three, to prepare the ground for good public reception of scientific endeavours, which in turn will favour research funding through democratic institutions. Beside the short overview of attempts at popularizing science in Croatia and abroad, the author proposes recommendations for good writing in popular scientific journals and stresses the problem of combining two styles, that is, the scientific and the artistic in popular scientific writing.

Communication↗

PubMed2002

[How to write].

In spite of a popular belief that every scientist knows how to write a professional paper, it is a sad fact that only a few scientists are really good writers. Hence the need for this paper. The process of writing is divided in three general steps (preparing, writing, and editing). In the first step, it is necessary to comprehend the future text as the whole. In the next step, one has to deal with its composition. In the third step, it is important to divide editing in precisely defined actions (adding and checking data, grammatical and stylistic corrections, spell-checking). The article also addresses certain differences between English and Croatian related to the meaning of words of Latin origin and provides examples of stylistic editing of scientific texts.

Humans↗