1. The Title tasks

Read the part of the lecture describing the importance of a title for a report and answer the questions:

Why is the title so important?

What are the typical mistakes that people make in titles?

Read the lecture again and eliminate the redundant words from the title “A Preliminary Report on an Experimental Investigation of the Refractive Index of Martini”. Now answer the questions:

Why does the speaker think that these words are redundant?

Do you share his opinion?

2. Abstract Writing tasks

Read a part of a lecture about abstract writing and answer the following questions:

How long can an abstract be?

What is the purpose of an abstract?

Write down a list of recommendations of what you should and shouldn't do when writing an abstract.

You should

You shouldn't

C Read the first part of the lecture on abstract writing and fill in the gaps in the following:

Now, an abstract, as you know, is something that's about anywhere, between say 1) words long, a description of the work, really to 2) , the title in telling people whether this is some­thing that they ought to by pursuing further. One 3) that people often make is they don't 4)____. They'll tell what was done 5)____was carried out to measure this, that and the other and 6)_____some theory – but they'll never mention whether in fact the theory 7)____. So always 8)_____ that your abstract does include 9)_____that you've actually________.

3. The Structure of a Technical Report tasks

A. Read about the structure of a technical report and complete the table with the relevant information.

Structural part (unit)	Purpose	Advice
1. Introduction
2. Theory
3. Description of apparatus
4. Results section
5. Discussion section
6. Recommendation

4. Acknowledgements tasks

A. Read how the author describes the importance of acknowledgements for a scientific report and answer the following questions:

1. Why is the list of acknowledgements important for a scientific pa­per?

2. What is the common mistake that people make when preparing a list of acknowledgements?

B. Now read again and fill in the gaps in the following:

I think I've tried to point out to you 1)____________that peo­ple have and 2)____________is don't go round and say to your­self: "Did this guy help me or not? If so, I'll acknowledge him." The 3)____________is: "Does he think he helped me?" If he does; 4)___________it in the word of acknowledgement for him. It's so easy. It's a 5)_____________thing. It 6)_____________about five lines in a text and it's 7)_____________to make this list of acknowledgements 8)_____________than you think it really 9) ____________have been.