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授課老師: Li-Hua LI (李麗華 李麗華 李麗華 李麗華)
Information Management Dept.
Chaoyang University of Technology
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Gender fair language
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/genderfair.html
Gender-fair language minimizes unnecessary concern about gender
It is better to write the sentence without pronouns.
Use Gender-specific pronouns only to identify a specific gender or a specific person.
Use Gender-specific pronouns only to identify a specific gender or a specific person.
Use Plural nouns and pronouns if they do not change the meaning of the sentence
Use first- or second-person perspective
Use a double pronoun, i.e., s/he, he or she, he/she, him and her
Use an article instead of a possessive pronoun as a
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Place an asterisk after the name of the principal investigator.
If the researcher is the principal investigator, he should place an asterisk after his name.
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Repeat the question for each subject so that he understands it.
Repeat the question for each male subject so that he fully
The principal investigator for this report has appended data tables to his summary.
I have appended data tables to the summary of this report.
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understands it.
Repeat the question for all subjects so that they fully understands it.
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Each supervisor will be at his or her workstation by 8 a.m.
Each supervisor will be at his workstation by 8 a.m.
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A user who makes a mistake may be disconnected
A user may be disconnected when he makes a mistake.
After filling out his class schedule, the student should place it in the registrar’s basket.
After filling out a class schedule, the student should place it in the registrar’s basket.
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If a student wish to avoid writing, he should do the homework.
The homework should be finished by any student who wishes to avoid writing.
最好能改寫如此例; 因為不得已,只好用被動式。
The effect of food has been studied extensively in man.
The effect of food has been studied extensively in human race.
The effect of food has been studied extensively in human race.
用people, person, humankind, humanity, human beings, human race, …來取代有特定性別的字.
The governor signed the workmen’s compensation bill.
The governor signed the worker’s compensation bill.
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Standard outline symbols
I. This is the I title II. This is the II title
A. This is A subtitle B. This is B subtitle
1. This is 1 sub-subtitle
1. This is the title 1
2. This is the title 2 2.1 2.1This is subtitle 2.1
2.2 This is subtitle 2.2 2.2.1 ……….
1. This is 1 sub-subtitle 2. This is 2. subtitle
a. ---- b. ---
(1) …..
(2) ……
(a)…
(b) …….
2.2.1 ……….
2.2.2 …………..
2.2.2.1 2.2.2.2 … 3. This is the title 3
3.1 This is subtitle 3.1 3.1.1 ………
3.1.2 ………….
or
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The new regulations could cause problems for both the winners and for those who lose.
The new regulations could cause problems for both winners and losers.
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Maintain parallelism
(保持對稱詞性或條列句型一致保持對稱詞性或條列句型一致保持對稱詞性或條列句型一致保持對稱詞性或條列句型一致)The objectives are as follows:
•Analyze the existing algorithms
•A new idea
•Implementing the system
•The results are discussed
The common problems of itemization
The objectives are as follows:
•Analyzing the existing algorithms
•Generating a new idea
•Implementing the system
•Discussing the results
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The objectives are as follows:
•Analyze the existing algorithms
•A new idea
•Implementing the system
•The results are discussed
The common problems of itemization
The objectives are as follows:
•Analyzing the existing algorithms
•Generating a new idea
•Implementing the system
•Discussing the results
修正 修正修正 修正修正 修正修正 修正
動名詞型態平行句
改成動詞型態 改成一般名詞型態
動名詞型態平行句
The objectives is to
(1)Analyze the existing algorithms, (2)Generate a new idea,
(3)Implement the system, (4)Discuss the results.
The objectives are as follows:
•Analysis of the existing algorithms
•Generation of a new idea
•Implementation of the system
•Discussion about the results
動詞型態平行句
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1.1 The Related Work
The problem of communication is to …
No indent for the paragraph immediately after a chapter title or heading.
Indent the other paragraph
The problem of communication is to …
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Do not put a stop at the end of a heading
2.3 Neural Nets for Image Classifications.
2.3 Neural Nets for Image Classification
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While I was walking up the hill, the wind blew away my umbrella.
Walking up the hill, my umbrella was blown away by the wind.
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Avoid dangling modifiers or ambiguity
When using disk tree algorithms are found to be X
X When using disk tree algorithms are found to be particular poor.
When using disk, tree algorithms ere found to be particular poor.
X X
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Binary tree based data structure Data structure based on binary tree
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Moreover, for each path edges consist of deleted loops for the corresponding spanning tree.
Moreover, for each path, edges consist of deleted loops for the corresponding spanning tree.
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This kind of binary sequences based on chaos orbits are called the chaotic binary sequence.
These kinds of binary sequences, based on chaos orbits, are called the chaotic binary sequences.
修改修改 修改修改
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A and B
A, B, and C A, B, C, and D A, B, C, D, and E A, B and C, and E
“And” and “or”; colons and semicolons;
A or B
A, B, or C A, B, C, or D A, B, C, D, or E A, B or C, or E
There are three kinds of lists: unlinked, singly-linked, and doubly-linked lists.
These small structure allow a large saving: the worst case is O(n).
However, one of the characteristics of digital images is that the data are redundantly stored
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•Randomized data structure
•Array based data structur
•Sequence pattern mining
method based data processing
Hyphenation (“-”)
Randomized-data structure
Array-based data structure data Data processing based on the
method of sequence pattering mining
請修改下面各句
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method based data processing
sub, non, micro, multi, and ultra should be joined to the words they modify.
For example: “subband,” “multimedia,” “nonsynchronous”
“non-synchronous”
mining
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“I don’t care,” she said.
She said, “I don’t care.”
Quotations (“”)
What do you think of Robert’s Forest’s “Design”?
特別是美國(US)的習慣 其它國家亦可以把標點符 號放外面.
What do you think of Robert’s Forest’s “Design”?
“I don’t care,” she said. “What do you think?”
注意此處design為特有涵意 不要隨便用
不要隨便用不要隨便用
不要隨便用”” 因為這是另有意涵因為這是另有意涵因為這是另有意涵因為這是另有意涵 I think this event is very “机車机車机車机車”””. ” I think this event is very “shaky”.
O.K.
不好不好不好不好,,,,並非其另有它意涵並非其另有它意涵並非其另有它意涵並非其另有它意涵
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Tables
Describe simple and few numbers only.
Use graphs or figures for more complex numbers.
注意標題的位置是
圖下 圖下 圖下 圖下 表上 表上 表上 表上
Should be open and uncluttered with ample white space
Do not run across a page.
Should have informative caption.
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Attack The proposed method
Kundur’s method
Blurring Y N
Sharpening Y N
Table 1: The PSNR after WaterMark embedding
Attack The proposed method Kundur’s method
Blurring Y N
Sharpening Y N
JPEG Y N
Table 1: The PSNR after watermark embedding