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 PAGE - 5 - English for International Students Unit www.eisu.bham.ac.uk Academic Writing for Scientists and Engineers Students The Discussion Section in Empirical Writing Hand-out compiled by EVG, 2012, adapted from information found in Armer, T., Cambridge English for Scientists , CUP, 2011 and Williams, I., English for Science and Engineering, Heinle, 2007. Introductory Task: language and style Read the interview and write the questions that you think the interviewer asked. Question 1: Who employs safety engineers? In which types of companies do safety engineers tend to find employment? Many large industrial and construction firms employ safety engineers. Also nowadays, insurance companies working in the field of employee compensation maintain safety engineering departments. Question 2: How can someone qualify as a safety engineer? How do people become safety engineers? Can we study safety engineering? In most cases, safety engineering is a specialty adopted by engineers who received their initial training in some other branch of engineering. Question 3: What do safety engineers do? What is safety engineering? Well, the principal objective of engineers working in this field is preventing accidents. Safety engineers work on ways of safeguarding all types of worker but particularly the ones who work in occupations that can be hazardous. Question 4: Do all safety engineers work for insurance companies? Do safety engineers mainly work with employees on accident prevention? No, not all of them. You see, some safety engineers also help in the design of machinery, factories, ships, and roads. They suggest modifications and improvements to try to reduce the likelihood of an accident. B. Sentence structure Without looking back at section A, combine the following fragments into 1 complete sentence. Change the verb forms between brackets and add pronouns (where, which, who, whose …) whenever it is necessary. If you can find more than one way of doing th