Exam 2 Chapter 16

Question 1

How is Science Communicated?

Answer 1

Poster Sessions, Talks, Papers, Social Scene (Secret University)

Question 2

Tips For Good Writing:
No Gendered Language

Answer 2

Say: Subjects
Not: The boys

Question 3

Tips For Good Writing:
Dont Lable People

Answer 3

Say: Person who has schizophrenia
Not: Schizophrenics

(Capitalize Black)

Question 4

Tips For Good Writing:
Current Group Names

Answer 4

Say: 40% Puetorican
Not: 40% Hispanics.

Question 5

Tips For Good Writing:
Talk about research, not researchers.

Answer 5

Say: A study was conducted where…
Not: Jude & Brown studied…

Question 6

Tips For Good Writing:
Active Voice

Answer 6

Say: We determined
Not: It was determined

Question 7

Tips For Good Writing:
Use Technical language Correctly

Answer 7

Say: We tested if smoking affected…
Not: We tested if smoking predicted…

Question 8

Tips For Good Writing:
Dont quote

Answer 8

You get this

Question 9

Tips For Good Writing:
Avoid meta comments

Answer 9

Say: We will first discuss…
Not: Note the following…

Question 10

Tips For Good Writing:
Parallel Structure

Answer 10

Say: This and then, so this and then
Not: Then this, so that happened

Question 11

Tips For Good Writing:
Sign Post

Answer 11

Say: We hypothesize
Not: We think that

Question 12

6 Parts of the Paper

Answer 12

Title Page
Abstract
Intro
Methods
Results
Discussion