Notes on Using These Presentation Visuals

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Proposal 9950156 Alley, Crowley, and Robertshaw
Notes on Using These Presentation
Visuals 1) These visuals use the following
typefaces Arial for the visuals, and Times New
Roman for the notes pages. 2) A notes page
accompanies each visualto view, simply click on
Notes Page under View. 3) These visuals have
been simplified so that they transfer more
accurately. However, be aware that tabs, indents,
and graphics still may not transfer properly.
4) If you are projecting these visuals with a
computer, consider making before and after
slides for those visuals that show revisions of
pieces of writing. In that way, you can make the
lecture interactive by having the students
analyze each before piece of writing. This
file contains just a sample of the visuals for
the proposed project in the project, we will
develop more than 150 such visuals.
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To begin a scientific document, you should first
analyze your constraints
Politics
Audience What do they know? Why are they
reading? How will they read? Format Layout? Typog
raphy?
Formality Grammar? Punctuation? Usage? Process De
adline? Collaboration?
Ethics
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A strong title orients readers to the area of work
Effects of Humidity on the Growth of Electron
Avalanches in Electrical Gas Discharges
Effects of Humidity on the Growth of Avalanches
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Section headings should be descriptive and
parallel
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Generalities that are not anchored with
specifics are soon forgotten
After finding that high winds (and not hail)
had cracked the ten solar mirrors, we began
stowing all mirrors in a horizontal position
during thunderstorms.
After recognizing some problems with the
solar mirrors, we took subsequent corrective
measures.
Trash
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Complex sentences misdirect readers
The goal of the work was to confirm the nature of
electrical breakdown of nitrogen in uniform
fields at high pressures and electrode gaps
which approach those obtained in engineering
practice, prior to the deter-mination of the
processes which set the criterion for breakdown
in the above-mentioned gas in uniform and
non-uniform fields of engineering significance.
At high pressures (700 torr) and typical
electrode gap distances (1 mm), the electrical
breakdown of nitrogen was studied in uniform
fields.
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Ambiguities occur for many reasons
The proposed schedule is discussed below for the
next four years.
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As light hydrocarbons evaporate the oil vapor
pressure falls.
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Although engineers realized the design flaws in
the Titanic soon after its sinking in 1912, the
reasons for the severe damage inflicted by the
iceberg remained a mystery until its discovery in
1985.
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Writing Proposals
An important scientific innovation rarely makes
its way by winning over and converting its
opponentsit rarely happens that Saul becomes
Paul. Max Planck
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A proposal presents a statement of the problem
New methods are needed to detect plastic
explosives in airline baggage
Plastic explosives pose a serious threat to
air travel
Conventional methods cannot effectively detect
plastic explosives
Statistics on the aircraft downed by plastic
explosives Specific example of aircraft
downed by plastic explosives (Pan Am Flight 103)
Problems that conventional x-rays have
detecting plastic explosives Problems that
dogs have detecting plastic explosives

Evidence that conventional methods failed in
detecting plastic explosives
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The proposed plan defines the scopeand
limitations of the work
Methods not considered conventional x-rays hand
searches dogs
Size of specific airport not considered
Evaluation of Methods to Detect Plastic
Explosives in Airline Baggage
Criteria for evaluation accuracy of
detection false alarm rate cost (initial,
maintenance) speed ease of use
Three methods x-ray backscatter system nitrogen
sniffer system thermal neutron activation system
Effectiveness at detecting conventional explosives
not considered
Risk of terrorism to specific airport not
considered