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Use appropriate words in the context:

1.Scientists use the … literature to gain an overview of research areas that are close to or relevant to their own. (primary/secondary)

2.The … section of a scientific paper describes how the study was conducted. (discussion/method)

3.The … section of a scientific paper critically evaluates the meaning and reliability of the study. (discussion/results)

4.In a given year, the … of a journal is the average number of citations received per paper published in that journal during the two preceding years. (impact factor/h-index)

5.The big parts of a story should stick together, but the small parts need some stickum as well. When the big parts fit, we call that good feeling …; when sentences connect, we call it … (cohesion/coherence)

6.If you rearrange a sentence by changing its structure while maintaining the original words, or changing a few words to synonyms, Тt Тs МКХХОН …

(paraphrasing/ plagiarizing)

BEvaluate the quality of scientific writing (logic, accuracy, style, quotation).

Human resources should be considered as the significant organizational asset. The application of the appropriate strategies for its development, can lead to the improvements of the corporate performance both in

the short and the long time. There are also companies where human re- sШurМОs КrО ЧШt МШЧsТНОrОН Кs СКЯТЧР pКrtТМuХКr ТЦpШrtКЧМО ПШr tСО ПТrЦs’ growth. TСОrО КrО ПТrЦs tСКt “ЯТОа tСОТr СuЦКЧ rОsШurМОs Кs КЧ ОбpОЧsО ra-

ther than an asset - an element that is expendable and perhaps discarded when the skills possessed becomes obsolete; however when human resources are viewed as asset, companies enhance individual value through

training and human development and ensure continued contribution to the ШrРКЧТгКtТШЧ”. TСО ТЦpШrtКЧМО ШП the human resources for the corporate

performance has in any case proved both in the literature and the empirical researches conducted in all industrial sectors.

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C Rewrite the paragraph from a PhD thesis making all necessary corrections.

Using of the Discrete Element Method (DEM) in engineering has increasingly been the object of study in recent years, from geotechnical engineering (Ting, et al., 1989; Ting and Corkum, 1992; Oda, et al., 1982) to reduction of disasters (Bourrier, et al., 2007; Shiu, et al., 2006). Today, depending on the rapid development in computer science, DEM has been applied to modeling a more complex physical phenomena and solving more difficult engineering problems which beyond our own imagination.

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Take these tests on quotation and information search.

http://www.esc.edu/online-writing-enter/resources/exercises/activities/distinguish- between-summaries-and-paraphrases/

http://www.esc.edu/online-writing-center/resources/exercises/activities/sample- search/

How do you assess your results?

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Unit 2. Presentation and Graphing

What first comes to mind when you hear the word

“prОsОЧtКtТШЧ”?

Have you seen a lot of presentations? On what subjects?

Did you give any presentations? What was the audience?

What can you say about presentations in the pictures? (pic. 4, a, b, c)

c

Pic. 4

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A. Listen to the speaker and practise pronunciation of the words related to presentation and graphing:

A. StuНв tСО visuКl tСОsКurus oП tСО vОrЛ “prОsОnt” КnН piМk out those definitions which are relevant to the context of scientific research.

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Good scientific research involves a sound methodology and a novel idea that can be tested simply and repeatedly to give valid, trustworthy results. However, even the most significant research is useless if it is not communicated successfully. Scientific ideas are novel, sometimes simple in theory, but most always complex in technique. These attributes of research make it necessary to use all available means of presentation. The most common media for scientists to communicate with the general public is primary journal articles. However oral presentations are also affective because they allow scientists to be in direct contact with their audience. This provides both parties an opportunity to ask pertinent questions to add clarity to the work being presented.

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