Ways to do things

Usage examples of techniques.

The methods of science, or at least biological science, they would maintain, cannot provide understanding of the mind, either because the mind is fundamentally inaccessible to materialist investigation or because our techniques, while they may be applicable to understanding animal brains and behaviour, fail when confronted with the complexities of human thought, speech and social existence.

Pick up the average scientific paper - especially if it comes from a US lab - and read through the introduction until you come to the Methods section where, by convention, the experimenters describe in some detail the techniques they have used.

If the writer does not use good techniques, the story will collapse, just as when a builder uses poor techniques his building collapses.

We will concentrate on the craft of writing, on the techniques of telling a story in print.

Since the time when storytelling began, probably back in the Ice Ages, people have developed workable, usable, successful techniques for telling their tales.

Storytellers use those techniques today, whether they are sitting around a campfire or in a Hollywood office.

The techniques have changed very little over the centuries because the human brain has not changed.

Our basic neural wiring has not changed, so the techniques of storytelling, of putting information into that human neural wiring, are basically unchanged.

This book is basically about science fiction writing, although the techniques for writing science fiction can be used for any kind of fiction writing.

It may be that all these techniques and surprises were obvious to you as you read the story.

You can also market your own novel, using the market research techniques outlined earlier in this chapter.

Ice Ages, people have developed workable, usable, successful techniques for telling their tales.

If that were so then to have a perfect memory would not be a help but a hindrance in our day-to-day existence, and the long search for techniques or drugs to improve our memory - a search which goes back far into antiquity - would be at best a chimera.

And with the new knowledge come new techniques that can potentially transform the quality of our lives - at least for those of us living in relative abundance in technologically advanced societies - from cradle to grave.

Biochemists, with techniques of mashing and grinding tissues and extracting purified chemicals from them, seemed in the nature of things to destroying everything that was special, unique, about the brain, elaborate and interlinked mesh of nerve cells with their exquisite shapes and subtle electrical properties.