ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the question by adopting a "do it yourself" approach, as this has recently been advocated for the demonstrative investigation of domain-specific skills. It presents the training microscope, the easyscan™ model, how it could be located, and how the author tutorial was arranged, as well as the principal problems of experimentation he/she would face from within that perspicuous setting. The chapter discusses successive training sessions and offers a narrative account of the author involvement in microscopic experimentation. The narrative serves the purpose of introducing the reader to the practiced scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) procedures and its preparatory procedures in particular. The chapter entitles "topography", examines the visual production and eventual reproduction of the intended topography, as well as the decisive shift from preparatory to monitoring procedures. It discusses the heuristic potential of, and problems encountered in, adopting a practitioner's stance.
