...FALE 1033 WRITING FOR SCIENCE Topics Covered Introduction to effective writing skills Writing thesis statement and topic sentences Definition , exemplification and classification Description Cause and effect Interpreting diagrammatic information Comparing and contrast Proofreading and editing Text Used 1. 2. Main Text: Oshima, A & Hogue. ( 1997). Introduction to Academic Writing. New York: AddisonWesley, Longman Zimmerman. (2003).English for Science. Singapore: Prentice Hall Additional Text Brannan, B. (2003). A Writer’s Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays. McGraw Hill Trible,C. (2003). Writing Oxford: Oxford University Press Method of Assessment 2 Assignments + 1 Test Assignment 1 -15% (Outlines) Assignment 2 – 15% (interpreting data) Test – 10% (Grammar/proofreading) Final Examination- 60% Section A- Essay Section B- Grammar Section C- Interpreting Graphic Data LECTURE 1 INTRODUCTION TO EFFECTIVE WRITING SKILLS What is Science Writing? Science writers are responsible for covering fields that are experiencing some of the most rapid advances in history, from the stunning advances in biotechnology to the exotic discoveries in astrophysics. A science writer may include coverage of new discoveries about viruses, the brain, evolution, artificial intelligence, planets around other suns, and the global environment, to name a few topics Aims and objectives for writing for science To provide students with the necessary knowledge of the...
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...To Build or Buy Small Business Management 10/30/2014 People love to socialize, have fun, let loose and forget about their worries and what better place to do that than at a local dance bar. For hundreds of years, bars have been around ensuring that people are having a great time and enjoying their drink of choice. Bars will never fade away and go out of style and every city and town could always use something new and exciting that will help draw them away from one bar and to another. Everyone enjoys dancing, fun music, great drinks and entertainment throughout the whole year. Lincoln, Nebraska has around two hundred and fifteen thousand people and is always growing. It is most known for the University of Nebraska where college sports is always dominant, so that means when school is in session there are thousands of college kids ready to party and let loose from all their studying. To the west in Lincoln there is a new district that is growing steadily with new restaurants and bars. This is all within walking distance from the football stadium and the newly built arena where concerts and basketball games are played. In this area there is a city block that has two levels of bars and restaurants and an outdoor patio with a giant big screen television outside for everyone to watch major events. This place is called the rail yard since it was built right where the train station used to be many years ago. At the rail yard people have their choice of choosing...
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...* What is Squatty Potty’s Mission Statement? Overall do they base their marketing efforts on this mission statement? Explain with some examples. * The Squatty Potty’s Mission Statement is “to change the way we poop, one ‘stool’ at a time.” Yes, they do base their marketing efforts on this mission statement. They are very literal with their mission statement with the terminology of the word stool. With the use of the Squatty Potty, you poop better. * Analyze a marketing situation using SWOT analysis. * Perform a SWOT analysis for Squatty Potty, then share it with your group. Finally, your group must create a final SWOT analysis of Squatty Potty that will be used in your final project. Do this in a chart with detailed notes below if necessary. * SWAT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Creating a SWAT analysis for Squatty Potty can go in many different directions. * S-The commercial was really good at catching attention from consumers. It used humor and that’s always a good route to take when catching attention. * W-Using a unicorn that poops out ice cream. Not everyone is fond of seeing that image on television. An * O-To further the success of the campaign would be to have used a different method of what stool looks like coming from the unicorn. T- Not creating enough revenue anymore. As time passes, the less the campaign gets shown and consumers then will forget about the Squatty Potty. Continuing to show the commercial...
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...1.0 The growth of Tourism The increase of disposable income and leisure time in developed and wealthier countries, such as the United Kingdom, permitted people to take multiple holidays throughout the year. These factors, positively impacting the travel demand, facilitated the growth of the international tourist arrivals figures reported by the World Tourism Organization (2013), that highlighted a growth of 4% in 2012 and reporting at present a total number of 1.035 billion worldwide travellers. With the increase of the travel experience and the desire for new adventures, alternative forms of tourism have been blooming. Having been recognized as one the pillars for economic growth the tourism sector has shown the capability to adjust to the changing market conditions. Trends such as product development and diversification, the development of cheaper and faster access to new destination areas, the increased levels of ‘green awareness’ and the search for more sustainable alternatives to mass tourism resulted in the tendency of people to travel to more remote destinations. More environmentally conscious forms of tourism are therefore flourishing and the tendency towards shorter but more frequent trips permitted the rise in domestic tourism rates (Trew and Cockerell 2002). As according to the Tourism Alliance (2012) in fact, it has been possible to highlight that in 2011 the inbound tourism revenue grew at over 5 times the rate of the economy as a whole, while it has been reported...
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...modern world history. In this week's reading for James Wood, entitled "Nationalism", it talks about Nationalism and how it affected Latin American countries. An example of how Nationalism affected Latin America is the Cuban war for independence from Spain, which happened from 1868 to 1898. Jose Marti was a apostle of Cuban Independence, in which he earned this title from many years of fighting for this cause. Jose had died on the battlefield fighting for Cuba's independence in 1895. Due to his belief about Cuba being independent, Jose was imprisoned and was also exiled from Cuba. Jose Marti's most famous essay was published in newspapers in both New York and Mexico City in January of 1891. In this essay he talks about the blindness of the previous Latin American governments to what was actually going on in the that region. The Mexican Revolution of 1910 had posed a revolutionary challenge to the neocolonial system. Francisco Madero had led a campaign to overthrow the government, which at the time was a positivist dictatorship ran by Porforio Diaz. This revolution lasted for a decade from 1910 to 1920 and it was very bloody. The Revolution had many twists and turns, but it gradually became institutionalized in the 1920's. With that being said it created space for a variety of nationalistic expressions to appear. An example of this would be Mexican...
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...STRATHFIELD GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY FINAL PRELIMINARY EXAM 2005 Name: ………………………………… Teacher: ……………………………… INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS Part A: 15 Multiple Choice Questions (15 marks). Answer on the Multiple Choice page. Part B: Written Questions (60 marks). Answer all questions in the spaces provided. • Write using black or blue pen • Draw diagrams using pencil Total Marks: 75 EXAMINER’S INSTRUCTIONS All students to receive examination paper (12 pages) and Multiple Choice page. Reading time: 5 minutes Exam time: 2 hours Both papers are to be collected at the end of the exam and returned to the Science staff room. Thank you 1 Part A: 15 Multiple Choice Questions (15 marks). Answer on the Multiple Choice page. Allow about 30 minutes for this part. 1. The aim of a classification system in Biology is to group together organisms with: (A) similar ancestry (B) similar structures (C) similar environmental requirements (D) similar proteins 2. The main function of the organelle shown here is: (A) protein synthesis (B) transport of substances (C) photosynthesis (D) aerobic respiration 3. In Southern Africa small birds called oxpeckers accompany giraffes and feed on ticks and other parasites which colonise the giraffe's fur. Sometimes however, if the giraffe has a small wound the oxpeckers will keep the wound open so that they can directly drink the giraffe's blood This represents a change from: (A) parasitism to commensalism (B) mutualism to parasitism (C) commensalism...
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...Culture and Performance Jason D. Carr Grantham University Culture and Performance Throughout this short essay there will be many different forms of how an organization’s culture affects its own performances. Specifically dwelling within the thoughts of individualism versus collectivism. Secondly with power distance, uncertainty along with risk avoidance strategies. Finally, the topics of achievement versus nurturing orientation on how the lye on organizational performances. An individualistic society depends upon the values of freedom and independence, while a collectivistic society depends on group harmony and consensus. The values in each society play an intricate role in developing communication styles for a business message targeted at each specific audience (Study). The main advantage of individualism within the business world is the concept of “freedom of speech”. With this process, it allows everyone’s opinions to be heard and also serves as a great check and balance within the team. However with every topic, there is also the down side too. The disadvantage of this is that it enables self-centeredness and if you are one of the weaker ones of the team, it allows you to be pushed around. The entire thought of individualism is for personal gain. Collectivism deals mainly with proper teamwork, minimizing confrontations as much as possible and promoting strong harmony within the team. With this topic it does not allow for true creativity and thoughtful openness...
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...Global strategy and leadership Topic 1 1 briefly outline the development of strategy 2. Examine some of the main concepts that inform our knowledge of strategy and leadership. 3. distinguish between the different approached to strategy The rational approach(有时间顺序)eg. The evolutionary approach The essential purpose of this approach is to assess the organization and its environment, achieve a fit between the two and, on the basis of this analysis, forecast and plan for the future. To maximize profit, organizations should position themselves in the markets to which they are best suited. The example of rational approach is five forces (offers leaders a clear and precise methodology for analyzing an organisation’s industry environment to determine its profitability, and a choice of strategy for optimizing performance in these envirments) This is diagnostic tool. Core assumptions are that the environment and the organization are knowable and definable, and that managers can analyze their industry and match their organization’s strategy accordingly. This model emphasis the role of leaders an d managers in creating and driving strategy and change. The processual approach（无序的，entangled）eg, the systemic approach, fuzzy approach. Strategy is sometimes constructed to make sense of what was happened, as much as it orchestrates what will happen. Distinguish between these tow approaches 1) The processualists, focus more on the competencies of organization in a concern to build the...
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... About Xcode Developer Tools Xcode 3.1.4 developer tools for Mac OS X v10.5 Contents Introduction Compatibility with Mac OS X Versions What's New Installation Deprecation Notice Introduction Xcode 3.1.4 is an update and bug fix release to the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard developer tools. This release includes new, optional GCC and LLVM compilers, updated project assistant, a simplified toolbar, and additional bug fixes and security enhancements. You do not need to install this package if you have already installed the iPhone SDK for iPhone OS 3.0. The complete Xcode developer tools are included as part of the iPhone SDK installation (download available separately). We encourage developers to join the Apple Developer Connection. It provides the most convenient access to Apple Inc. development resources, technical support and pre-release software. For information visit http://developer.apple.com/. Compatibility with Mac OS X Versions Xcode 3.1.4 is compatible with Intel and PowerPC Macs running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Xcode 3.1.4 supports development targeting Mac OS X v10.3 Panther and Universal applications for Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard using the Mac OS X SDK support. What's New • • • • • SDK support for targeting non-Mac OS X platforms, including iPhone OS SDK. GCC 4.2 & LLVM GCC 4.2 optional compilers for use with Mac OS X 10.5 SDK Updated assistants to create new projects, targets, and source files Toolbar uses a single popup to choose platform, target...
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...The Causes and Effects of Doping in Sport Hou Juin Yew, Calvin B1201067 HELP University Outline I. Introduction A. Opener : The history of doping in sports B. Thesis statement: There are few causes that is undergone family problems, huge amount of debts, cope with a live of stress and face a lot of pain during training and few effects that lead in to problems in body function and mental effects. II. The causes of why athletes dope in sports. A. Family problems B. Huge amount of debts C. Live of stress D. A lot of pain in training III. The effect in the body function of a person when a person dope in sport. A. The uses of steroid in sports 1. The diseases when dope in sports 2. The body function of a person B. The uses of stimulants in sports 1. The type of drugs and the problems C. The uses of peptide hormones 1. Type of peptide hormone and the effects of the substances IV. The effect in the mental problems A. The type of disease that effect the mental problems V. Conclusions The Causes and Effects of Doping in Sport Doping in sport is means the use of drug to increase the performance of an athletic above average in an athletic competition...
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...Biology – Module 1 – A Local Ecosystem The distribution, diversity and numbers of plants and animals found in ecosystems are determined by biotic and abiotic factors. Compare the abiotic characteristics of aquatic and terrestrial environments. An aquatic environment is one that consists in water. The abiotic characteristics of an aquatic environment include: Buoyancy – This refers to the upward pressure (or thrust) that is applied on the organism by its medium. Buoyancy is determined by the density of the medium and determines the floating ability of an organism. Water provides sufficient buoyancy for many organisms, e.g., the jellyfish. If a jellyfish is taken out of water and placed on land it will disintegrate by spreading apart. Thus, the water provides enough buoyancy (pressure) in order to keep the shape of the jellyfish. Pressure – This is the downward force that is applied on an organism by its medium. In water, the pressure is dependent on the depth. Organisms that live at the bottom of the ocean experience the effects of extreme pressure and they must have specific adaptations that enable them to survive in such harsh environments. Temperature Variations – Usually in an aquatic environment there are minimal temperature variations to that compared with terrestrial environments. The temperature variations also depend on the size of the body of water; a large body of water will experience much less temperature variations than a smaller body...
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...manager of Pacific Medical Supply Company. But these are the types of problems owners of a successful small businesses like Jim like to have. Jim problems involved his most junior salesperson, Nicole Landis. Nicole’s impact on Pacific Medical Supply’s sales was huge, despite the fact that the company hired her right out of college. The specific problems Jim faced as a result of Nicole’s extraordinary sales efforts involved professional jealousy among his sales staff, the discovery of an out-of-whack sales commission structure, and a customer service department that was tired of being dumped on by the salesperson they nicknamed the “land shark.” The company’s sales commission structure is as follows: Pacific Medical Supply Company pays a commission on customer orders placed based on the tiered commission rates on the chart below. [pic] Example: Monthly sales of $120,000 would result in a monthly commission of $10,500.00 ($100,000 X .085 + $20,000 X .10). This commission level, if sustained, would equate to $126,000 in annual income. Note: If all the orders were new business, $1,200 per month, or $14,400 per year would be added to the salesperson’s commission. Pacific Medical Supply’s Sale Commission Structure • Commissions are paid on each month’s sales orders by the 5th day of the following month • One percentage point is added to new business for a term of 12 months. New business is defined as an account which has not placed an order...
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...different levels of expertise and all medical fields are properly furnished with adequate personnel. This also helps patients know the health care services provided are of high quality. The additional skills and expertise is not only an asset to patients, but to the community and the organization due to being able to offer knowledge that is helpful and important in managing the health care organization. The partnerships of different health care specialist that are created within the facility encourages better use of resources and promotes higher levels of organizational excellence. (Shortel & Kalunzy, 1997) Based on the facility being multi-specialty it cannot be a sole proprietorship. A partnership exists if someone joins the proprietor and sharks in the rewards and risks. The simplest kind of partnership is a general partnership. In this arrangement the partners usually receive equal shares of profits or losses, are entitled to equal voting rights, and are personally liable for the debts of the venture (Showalter, 2012) Deciding to incorporate a medical facility can be tough. The first factor is whether you want limited liability, which is the primary benefit of forming a medical corporation. Next you determine the costs of forming and maintaining a medical corporation. Then you delve into the tax advantages and disadvantages of forming a corporation. Last, you weigh the factors and make a decision (Dickstein). Limited liability is a big factor to incorporate. A sole physician...
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...Connection”), the incidence of lyme disease among humans increases in years when the gypsy moth population is low because: a) an abundant acorn crop draws deer into the woods b) during these years, small plants and seedlings grow particularly fast c) gypsy moth larvae are eaten by mice d) there are “bumper years” of lyme disease e) ticks like to feed on human blood Answer: a 5) The Environmental Science textbook outlines the relatively simple food chain that exists in hot springs such as in Yellowstone National Park, including the following organisms: (A) herbivorous flies (B) carnivorous flies (C) decomposers (D) photosynthetic bacteria What would be the correct order of these organisms from lowest trophic level to highest trophic level: a) C, A, B, D b) B, A, D, C c) D, A, B, C d) B, A, C, D e) C, D, A, B Answer: c 6) Which of the following is an example of three different species on three different trophic levels, listed from lowest level to highest: a) shrubs, trees, giraffes b) humans, cows, grass c) sharks, herbivorous fish, carnivorous fish d) moss, reindeer, wolves e) dirt, corn, humans Answer: d 7) The most basic processes in an ecosystem are: a) photosynthesis and respiration b) transport and storage of food c) trophic chains and storage of food d) flow of energy and cycling of chemical elements e) waste decomposition and cycling of energy...
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...Question 1 Negligence refers to careless behavior which means somebody is not taking enough care in a situation where care is expected. People must be careful if actions affect others. If Alphonso wanted to sue the doctors for negligence, he should prove the four elements of negligence. For the Elements of negligence, it includes the duty of care, standard of care, causation and remoteness of damage.To duty of care, the defendant owed the plaintiff a duty of care about the reality of the lap band surgery. And the defendant had a responsibility to take care not to cause any loss to plaintiff. As in the Lord Atkin in Donoghue v Stevenson[1], one person should avoid acts or omissions that would be likely to injure his/her neighbor. Thus, it was reasonably foreseeable that the doctors had made the failure to warn the danger and led to Alphonso’s injury. Dr Corinthian is a specialist with expertise about the risk of surgery and he does know that Alphonso would rely on the information what is given by him, as in the case L Shaddock and Associates Pty Ltd v Parramatta City Council[2]. Moreover, Dr Blataslav owes a duty of care with regards to his knowledge about lap band surgery and he should know that Alphonso will rely on his knowledge. For the standard of care, the defendant failed to act with a sufficient care and did not give the standard of care required in the circumstances. Dr Corinthian should tell the truth about the 33% chance of complications and a 10% chance of...
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