The salmon, for example, is extremelysensitive to changes in the condition of the water in which it lives.
You examples to support the above quote to construct a solid argument. (leo chen)
The salmon, for example, is extremelysensitive to changes in the condition of the water in which it lives.
You examples to support the above quote to construct a solid argument. (leo chen)
Over 60 percent of the purchases we make at the pharmacycontain substances that are derived from wild organisms (Myers 2008).
rephrasing the quote and follow by (last name publication year). (leo chen)
The introduction has precisely one purpose: to con-vince your readers that they should read your paper.
I agree with this; moreover, the hook is very important because it can stimulate readers' curiosity and make them keep reading. (leo chen)
Parallelstructures within a sentence, or within adjacentsentences or paragraphs, can often be used to goodeffect to hammer a point home
Parallel structure can help to constructed a clear and grammatically sentence. Also the paragraphs flow well and contains rhythm when using parallel structure. (leo chen)
elf-plagiarism refers to authors who reuse their own previously disseminatedcontent and pass it off as a ”new” product without letting the reader know that this material has appeared previously.
It is hard to distinguish self-plagiarism and common knowledge. We need to be careful when we stating a fact, we need to think from the audiences' aspect to see wether that the fact is a common knowledge. (Leo Chen)
minor plagiarism may still result in serious negative consequences for the perpetrator as per institutional policies
Plagiarism should be avoid in all ways regarding of its intentionality. (Leo Chen)
A Level 1heading should be centeredand bolde
subtitle convenction in APA
Smith, 2009, p. 76)
A littlte different from MLA since MLA prefer (Last name, page number). We can see that publication year is required to cited in the APA. (Leo Chen)
The running head is a shortened version of the paper’s full title
Wondering how to shorten the title (Leo Chen)
he U.S. House of Repres~ntatives recently passed the "Marine Biotechnology Investment Act" which is designed to enhance the National Sea Grant College Program efforts in biotechnology to (I) expand the range and increase the utility of products from the oceans, (2) improve condition of marine ecosystems by developing substitute products that decrease the harvest pressure on Jiving resources, (3) improve production of aquaculture, (4) provide new tools for understanding ecological and evolutionary processes, and (5) improve techniques for remediation of environmental damage.
Show that the researches were supported by the government, and the reason was followed to persuade the sponsor to fund it too. (leo chen)
Methodology:
Providing methodology makes the research more reliable since the sponsor can see whether the method is on the right track. (leo chen)
The components of the main argument in a proposal are, however, fairly consistent
Just like acedemic scientific articles, there is a model for proposal writing. And there are some conventions and similar between these kind of articles. (Leo Chen)
your proposal must convince readers not only that the research problem . significant but that your research approach is likely to succeed.
I agree with Kevin that the best way to get fun from readers is to convince that there would be pay bay from the research. (Leo Chen)
Compounds which contain azido groups are often explosive.
I found that the usage of restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses very interesting. The use of restrictive clause can stress a part in the sentence. For example, "Compounds that contain azido groups" is stressing or specifying which compounds is the author referring to, in this case, only the compounds with azido groups. (Leo Chen)
The English language is the principal tool of modern scientific communication,
We should use proper grammar and accurate word choice or phrase to avoid any potential misinterpret by readers. (Leo Chen)
Those well-wrought serpents all had something in common: Their structure presented information to readers in the order the readers needed and expected it.
It can allow the readers get the most they need to understand the concept from the sentence. (Leo Chen)
Improving the quality of writing actually improves the quality of thought
I totally agree with this argument since better writing can make other understand your idea more easily and accurately. Specially science is a rigorous subject, science writing should be contain necessary detail and careful word choice. (Leo Chen)
Science has credibility with the public pre-cisely because the public believes that scienceis neutral, that it doesn’t take positions oradopt particular frames
It is call logos or ethos in classic rhetoric. In science, data is a strong evidence to persuade someone and people are tend to believe one that are expert in the field. (Leo Chen)
n the end, although each describes aportion of the elephant accurately, none can picture the entire animal. T
It implies the nature of science, although many scientist are expert in certain narrow topics, without communication, they can not link together to achieve a bigger goal. Therefore, the scientific writing becomes important since it can convey the ideas to others to link all the piece together. (Leo Chen)
Thus, the process of building scientific knowledge is best described not through indi-vidual facts, but through the achievement of consensus about what counts as fac
knowledge is not only the truth itself, what make information to become knowledge or facts are there's people believe in it. For instance, people did not believe heliocentrism until 1600s (leo chen)
If scientists were prevented from communi-cating with each other, scientific progress would grind to a halt
communications allow scientists to work together to found out the truth. Therefore, scientistic writing is important sionce it allows you to better convey your idea. (leo chen)