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SCIENTIFIC WRITING

Session 1 – Handout

Practice 1:
Underline the areas of text that are inappropriate in style.

How to make people work harder is a topic that lots of people have written about in the last few
years. There are lots of different theories etc and I think some of them are OK. When we think
about this, we should remember the old Chinese proverb that you can lead a horse to water but
you can’t make it drink. So how do we increase production? It’s quite a complex subject but I’ll
just talk about a couple of ideas.
(Bailey, 2014)

Practice 2:
The following sentences are part of a written assignment on “the need for clarity and logic in
academic writing”. Number the sentences in the best order possible and put a cross next to any
sentences that should be left out.

a. The reader can more easily understand the information if it is presented in a clear and
b. Clarity and logic in academic writing helps both the reader and the writer.
c. The writer is also benefited as it forces the writer to better analyse the connections
between their pieces of information and sequence it accordingly.
d. It is for these reasons that clarity and logic is considered a necessity in tertiary
institutions.
e. Writing clearly is also a skill that the writer will carry with them for their lifetime.
f. Reading effectively is also an important skill at university.
Practice 3:
Which is more ‘academic’ in the following sentence pairs – (a) or (b)? Why?

1. (a) There were a lot of students who enrolled at the university to study education.

(b) Five hundred students enrolled in the Bachelor of Education degree at James Cook
University.

2. (a) Statistics from Road Safety Australia show that male drivers accounted for 60% of
total traffic accidents in the North Queensland region in 2013, with female drivers
accounting for the remaining 40%. These figures suggest that female drivers are more
skilled in avoiding traffic accidents than male drivers. From this we can conclude that ...

(b) It is my honest opinion that women are better drivers than men.

3. (a) Thus, based on personality theory as developed by Mr I.M Sure, it is clear that
personality is the product of both genetic and environmental influence.

(b) Thus, differences in personality can obviously be attributed to genetic influence. I am


sure we have all recognised similar personality traits in ourselves and our parents as well
as other siblings. If we would but look at the commonalities in our family trees surely we
could see that personality is the product of genetic transfer?

4. (a) The potential for abuse of the proposed voluntary euthanasia legislation, quite clearly
necessitates that every State in Australia reject the proposal outright.

(b) The pain that legalising euthanasia would bring to unwitting victims of such
legislation far outweighs the pain of any terminal illness and thus such legislation should
be rejected immediately.

Practice 4:
1. Complete the gaps in the table below.
2. Insert a suitable noun or adjective from the table in each sentence.

a. The students were_______________their project would be successful.


b. One of Tokyo’s _______________ is its excellent transport system.
c. There is a strong _______________ that fees will rise next year.
d. The students complained that the lecture was not _______________ to their course.
e. The results are sos urprising it will be_______________to repeat the experiment.
f. The _______________ household size in Turkey is 4.1.
g. Regularly backing up computer files reduces the _______________ of losing vital work.
h. Revising for exams is a tedious _______________.
i. These data appear to be _______________ and should not be trusted.
j. The _______________ date of the founding of Rome is 750 BCE.
k. The _______________ consequences of the war were inflation and unemployment.
l. They attempted to make a _______________ of all the different proposals.

(Bailey, 2015)

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