KELOMPOK

Vocabulary and
punctation
 AFIFAH TRINANDASARI
 ALGHI SATRIA
 DELVIA NENGSIH
 DELVIN ARIYATNO
 STRUCTURING SENTENCES
1. Proximity of detail and item
• the subject and verb (person and action), e.g.
• an item, and its detail or descrip

2. Series of nouns tion, e.g

Reading is improved and less ambiguous when a long series of nouns is avoided. Also, when
verbs or processes are written as nouns (by adding ‘ment’, ‘ance’, and ‘tion’ etc.) the sentence
becomes complicated.

3. Parallel construction
Items which are listed or grouped should be presented in a parallel form. ‘Parallel’ means the
same grammatical structure, sentence length, capitalisation and layout.
 VOCABULARY

1 • Currently in engineering reports, personal language (‘I’ or

‘we’ is avoided in preference to impersonal constructions
which emphasise scientific objectivity.

• Personal language is occasionally used to distinguish

Personal language
between the views or findings of other authors and your
own.
 2
Gender neutral language is language which includes women
and men equally. Technical reports should avoid using male-
Gender inclusive only terminology such as ‘he’.
language
 3
• Often writers have favourite words or expressions. Reports
should avoid overuse of particular words, groups of words,
Repetition of words or sentence structures
Thank for attention!