Scientific Writing for HTI Students

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Do you know these words?

The aim of this activity is to measure the number of words that you know on this topic. Below is a list of words related to this topic. Some of them are real English words, but some are wrong. Click on the ones that are real, and ignore the wrong ones. Clicking real words will increase your score, but clicking wrong ones will decrease it. When you have finished, click on the 'Check Answer' button. The program will give you feedback and advice on which words you need to learn.

Your score:
The real words of the wrong words are shown in blue.

protocol	parameters	uniqueless uniqueness	construct
abstract	dynamicks dynamics	consequences	critical
investigate	schema	scenaria scenarios	correlates
decode	genome	calibrateness calibrated	whereas
potentialy potentially	indicates	foroging forgoing	systematic
phenomena	contrastive	disenablement disabled	hypothesis
inference	generalizasion generalisation	synthesis	explanatory
proposal	classify	categories	specificity
subsequently	valid	diseminate disseminate	causal
values	reasoning	frames	transducer
textual	pinpointed	antipressure negative pressure	strategies
attributed	restricted	authority	quantifying

Match the word to the definition

Fill in the gap with the best word.

The human genome is made up of about 35,000genes.
(Answer: genome )
The formation of a chemical compound through the combinationof simpler compounds or elements is known as synthesis .
(Answer: synthesis )
The overall effect is jittery, the technical equivalent of a film shot with a handheld camera.
(Answer: technical )
It is all too easy to be satisfied with being the authority , the expert in your field.
(Answer: authority )
So far the maximal capacity of human longevity has been restricted by limited diet and lifetime health insults.
(Answer: restricted )
The goal of a university is to produce and disseminate knowledge.
(Answer: disseminate )
There are valid legal and moral issues here, but there were also real-world questions without good answers.
(Answer: valid )
The normal cycle appeared to have been disrupted, which would have required a major rethink of the sun's internal dynamics .
(Answer: dynamics )
The first two columns are self- explanatory but the third is less so.
(Answer: explanatory )
The guiding principal for us was to try to construct a community with more equality and quality of life.
(Answer: construct )

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