F2F Class Notes (Sonia)[S/R]

what factors will you change and what factors will you keep the same to improve your next attempt? and explain why

(use both past and future tense)

For me, the most intriguing part in this study is to construct SNX10 and APOE double knockout mice. With SNX10-/- mice under FVB background and APOE-/- mice under C57/BL6 background on hand, I first need to acquire SNX10-/+ mice on C57 background, which requires two generations of crossbreeding with WT C57 mice. Then I need to perform crossbreeding between the acquired mice and APOE-/- mice for two generations before, with a small probability, getting eligible mice. This was a pretty interesting and challenging process which I immensely enjoyed.

*was constructing SNX10 and APOE double knockout mice already done? If so, you need to use past tense not present when discussing your experiment

e.g “the most intriguing part in this study WAS to construct…”

“Firstly, I needed…which required...”

“Then I needed…”

I have a shift on my plan –>my plans have shifted

the synonym for … is …

Grammar

“there are opposite results so I want to try it again”

correction: the results were contradictory so I want to try it again

to make sure what the result is right

correction: “to make sure which one is correct”

Pronunciation

FOAM:FOW-M

Form : FOH-R-M

illegible: IH-LE-JI-BUL

signal: ˈsɪɡ.nəl

Vocabulary

synonyms:

right–> correct

opposite-> contradict

contradict (v): to be so different from another fact or statement that one of them must be wrong

the results were contradictory

hazy(adj): blurry, unclear

e.g my brain is hazy today

illegible(adj): can’t read

e.g your handwriting is so bad it is illegible

mandatory(adj): must do

e.g writing by pen is mandatory in exams

what factors will you change and what factors will you keep the same to improve your next attempt?

“I will change the medicine which was used to induce foam cells formation”

“As before, the cells will culture in a medium supported with OXLDL for twenty four hours.  ”

source: https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1709/170913-handwriting.html

The world-renowned Cambridge University is considering abolishing handwritten exams after 800 years. University officials may ask students to type their exam answers on a computer rather than use a pen. The move follows complaints from examination markers who say they are finding test papers increasingly illegible due to poor handwriting. Academics say today’s students primarily use laptops in lectures and tutorials instead of pens. Students are losing the ability to write by hand. One academic said asking students to hand-write exams actually causes them physical difficulties. The muscles in their hand are not used to writing extensively for prolonged periods of two to three hours.

A Cambridge University lecturer, Dr Sarah Pearsall, told Britain’s ‘Daily Telegraph’ newspaper that handwriting was becoming a “lost art”. She said: “Twenty years ago, students routinely [wrote] by hand several hours a day, but now they write virtually nothing by hand, except exams.” She added: “We have been concerned for years about the declining handwriting problem. There has definitely been a downward trend. It is difficult for both the students and the examiners as it is harder and harder to read these [exam] scripts.” Dr Pearsall says some students’ handwriting is so illegible that they had to return to the university over the summer to read their answers out loud to examiners who could not read their writing.