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Posts Tagged ‘University’

Who says that scientific papers have to be boring?

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

In my everyday job at university I have to review papers. This requires that I go through the papers and check them for correctness and scientific contribution. Usually, most reviews are not that exiting because scientific papers tend to be written in a very dry style. Things like:

According to Lemma 3.1 that we introduced in Section 3 we now can prove the semantic correctness of the abstract syntax tree with regard to the completeness theorem which we proved in Section 2.

But sometimes I review papers, which are written in a very “flowery” style and which makes the review process fun. I’d like to share a few highlights of a paper I recently reviewed:

… that is responsible for the message payload, itself described with the equally famous protocol SOAP. – I didn’t know that protocols can become famous. Now I do.

… are being increasingly popular for the big usefulness… – Yep – big usefulness is always good.

… should stick by the same concerns stack, this following way. – Sing with me: I will follow you will follow me:

… have simulated the emergence of a new computing paradigm… – I agree: why stimulate when it is much safer to simulate the emergence of new paradigms?

… the context awareness of such applications is the subject of a recent field of studies called – Now? What would you think? – context aware systems. – Hey! That’s what I call a scientific breakthrough!

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Tags: Bloopers, Science, Scientific Writing, University
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English it is, is it English?

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

The use of the English language can be very challenging for non-native speakers (which is actually the majority of the English speaking world population). Consequently, their use of both spoken and written English is sometimes really awkward and some sentences can be incomprehensible. In my day job at university, I’ve got lots of opportunities to meet people who are (like me) non-native speakers and with which I communicate in something that vaguely resembles “English”.
As I already documented in a previous blog entry, the works of students can be a rich source of constructs of deformed or mistreated English and they are sometimes quite hard to understand. Here are some anonymous examples:

“Types: They are defined using XML-Schema. The may be used to declare complex data types. If only simple data types like strings or integers are used they are not necessary.”

- Yes, keep it simple! That makes life much easier!

“Message: A message defines messages which are exchanged. There are incoming and outgoing messages.”

– Really? Who would have thought that? What goes in on one end, comes out on the other? Mindblowing …

“Operation: An operation is an action provided by the Web Service. Its an abstract description of this action.”

– Okay… what is it really? Abstract operations of actions? Actions of abstract operations? Or both?

Your ikangai university team

Tags: blooper, students, University
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