Common problemsChinese Sci写作技巧讲义教材.ppt

Be careful of Spellchecker! Dr. Michael Shrout presented a plague to Dr. Lloyd Cook as Past Chair of the MCG Faculty for 1997-98. Drs. Campbell and Potter were presented a plague in appreciation of their service…… Spellchecker did not catch the gross error here…..should be plaque, not plague. Big difference!!! Parallel Construction Mutations in RLF2 are associated with severe mycobacterial, staphylococcal infection and leprosy. 3 items in the series, but unparallel Change to: Mutations in RLF2 are associated with severe mycobacterial and staphylococcal infections and leprosy. 2 items in the series: infections (2 types) and leprosy, in parallel Use of Hyphens Compound nouns do not take a hyphen (dash) What was the dose response of glucocorticoids in bone marrow cells? Compound adjectives take a hyphen We carried out glucocorticoid dose-response experiments in bone marrow. Use hyphens in the following common phrases Insulin-mediated effect DNA-binding protein Antibody-specific reaction Heat-induced effects 12-week-old mice Not 12 week-old mice (unless you are talking about twelve (a dozen) mice! When items in a series becomes confusing The use of animals is justified by the importance of the disease under study, osteoporosis, and the impossibility of performing a comparable study in humans. How many reasons are there? Looks like 3? Importance of disease osteoporosis impossibility In a Series Change to: The use of animals is justified by the importance of osteoporosis and the impossibility of performing a comparable study in humans. Removed the disease under study. It is redundant, anyway. An alternative might be to leave the sentence as it was but to put osteoporosis in parentheses. Serial Comma Rule In a series consisting of 3 or more elements, separate all the elements with commas. Use a comma before the conjunction that joins the last two elements. Prevents confusion However, American newspapers and the British usually do not use that final comm