Editing, Succinctness and Dealing with Jargon

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Editing, Succinctness and Dealing with Jargon

  • 1) Read the paragraph below and select the five words that should be removed because they are unnecessary. Hint: the system will only allow you to select five words from all of the available options, which have been bolded below.

    Many students worry about being accused of plagiarism because writing something totally unique is pretty difficult. In reality though, generally, they often do not need to worry, as long as they do not purposefully mean to copy someone else’s work. However many students do not realize that repeating what they have written in one class for use in another class counts as plagiarism; the actual fact is that you must cite your own work when you use it again. This also applies to graphics, images and illustrated drawings.
  • 5) Read the paragraph below and select the two jargon-heavy words that should be removed because they are unnecessary. Hint: The system will only allow you to select two words from all of the available options, which have been bolded below. Note that there are more than two jargon-heavy words in the paragraph, but some are necessary and would need to be explained for a reader: you are simply searching for the two that can be removed altogether.

    Tomason 300 X-Ray Crystallography Callibrators are useful for determining the tertiary molecular structure of proteins, which provides us with crucial biological knowledge that can help us to design drugs that target specific proteins produced by bacteria. For example, it shows the precise inter-peptide folding patterns that bacterial proteins undergo, mapping out the fine-grained alignment of individual atoms.