How to write in English, thesis, paper, and presentation

1. TECHNICAL ENGLISH
DR. WALEED K. HAMOUDI
TAIF ALAWSI NOTES

2. Technical English
How to write a scientific article?
Talk
Thesis
Starting with the title

3. Material , technique
and application

4. •What you start with = material
•Method to follow ( to process) that material =
technique
•What for
•Know how
•Know why
•Reading
•Sentences picking

5. •Think of a title contain the three
elements of the title.
•Velocity measurement of a moving
particle using high speed photonics
•What for?
•To construct a device that measures
the relative velocity of a moving
particle.

6. •Audience
•Spectators
•Simple device
•Simplified technique.

7. •Title
•Abstract
•Keywords
•Introduction
•Experimental work
•Results and discussion
•Future work
•References
Research methodology

8. Experimental work
Write what you have done
Describe all equipment , tools, technique, and material used in
meet
Put all measurements you conducted for the purpose of doing the
experiment
SEM( model, company, country)
High purity 99.999% iron substrate ( supplied by company name ,
country)
Optical absorbtion , surface morphology was examined by this AFM

9. Results and discussion or analysis
• Figure (1) illustrates
• The micrograph of figure (3) indicates
• Table…..
• The …… data are tabulated in table ( 1)
• Its important not to repeat words
• The sketch of…..
• 1. figures
• 2. Photographs
• 3. Sketches
• 4. Tables
• 5. Numbers
• Need to explain what and why

10. • Figure (1) indicates spherical nanoparticle when the iron was
irradiated with 5 J/ cm2 laser fluence , this is ascribed by …. [3]
• Is ascribed by
• Due to
• Attributed to
• Because of
• Agrees with ( non‐fundamental result )
• This is within the range of some published work [3,5,6,1]

11. • The best way
• Conclusion : to write good conclusion we do the following
• Summarize your results.
• Compare this summary with the purpose statement
• Reformulate the summary in one paragraph which will be the
outcome of all individual results represented.
• Conclusion outcome of results that satisfies the statement of purpose
• Conclusion answers the aim

12. • Thesis : for students who are less level than you .. Details needed
• Paper : for higher levels
• Future work: is either a method that gives better results or something
to add to the project.
• Different method
• Extra work that adds important thing to the work
• Proposal
• Construct a title

13. • Know what? .. How?...why?
• Conference or presentation (15 slides)
• (20‐25) presentation
• (10‐15) conference 10 min.
• Each slide must take the same amount of time
• 45 sec each slide

14. Presentation and slide numbers
Name
Title
Affiliation
1
Aim
2
Flow chart of experimental
strategy
( sum of results gives the aim )
5
Experimental
layout
Why
3
Describe the method
( the method is not
just the technique)
4
Conclusion in one
statement
15
Results and
discussion
6‐14
Try to make them listen to you

15. Instructions
• Don’t put more than 3 points in one slide
• 36 font size and larger
• Use colors and Bold
• One result per slide ( table , photo , curve ) and say its meaning
• Future work doesn’t included in the conference.
• If you write future work its # is 15 and conclusion is # 14.

16. Word format
• Font size 14
• Spacing 1.5
• 4 and half

17. References
From the oldest to latest
Chaining the actions

18. waleed
• Name + univ.
• Ref ( ½ page )
• 1 project name + abstract + keywords
• 2 introduction