Priyambodo Nur Ardi Nugroho

Use textbooks 1. Academic Vocabulary in Use 2. Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts, etc. 3. others Use web resources and tools 1. General web tools: word lists, phrase banks, AWL exercises, etc. 2. Specific tools that enable you to make your own questions, example sentences,  etc.: AWL Highlighter, AWL Gapmaker, Compleat Lexical Tutor. Read a lot 1. Native speakers build their (generally unconscious) knowledge of phrases through leisure reading. 2. Read papers in your field, fiction, magazines, etc. 3. Sometimes shift your focus to form .

Academic Phrasebank http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/ The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing organized according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation  English Vocabulary Exercises http://www.englishvocabularyexercises.com/ This website features over 750 gap-fill exercises to learn and review over 2000 items of  General  vocabulary and  Academic  vocabulary in English. Gap-fill exercis es are an excellent way to practice vocabulary in different contexts and can be used to broaden the student's understanding of the range of meaning of vocabulary. The online format of the exercises allows students to get immediate feedback on their answ ers. Quizlet https://quizlet.com/en-gb Simple tools for learning anything   Citation Machine http://www.citationmachine.net/ Citation Machine™ automatically generates ci

  Referring to Sources Reference to another writer’s ideas or position (author as subject) Vyarawalla (1985) concludes that depending on biomass feedstock and producer gas flow in the gasifier, fixed bed gasifier can be categorized as updraft, downdraft, and crossdraft, Reed (1988) argues that downdraft gasifier is more suitable for small-scale applications  Reference to what other writers do in their text: author as subject In his book, Basu (2013) mentions that typically, downdraft gasifiers have a capacity of 10 kW–1 MW Reference :  http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/referring-to-sources/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2017.03.112

When the tsunami struck the Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011, the public’s attitude to nuclear power plant changed overnight. People came to realize that it was neither safe nor clean. They also realized that it was not even cheap when the costs of storing used fuel and cleaning up after an accident were taken into consideration. As a result of the disaster, the governments of Germany and France decided to review their policies and scale down their dependence on the nuclear power. In contrast, the Japanese government has not yet started a clear policy on power generation. Following the disaster at Fukushima, all nuclear power plant were shut down, but some were started up again one year later. One thing that is abundantly clear is that many more Japanese people are opposed to nuclear power than ever before.

Changing attitudes towards nuclear power Before March 2011 many people in Japan conside r nuclear power plant to be safe, clean and cheap. Even after Chernobyl accident in 1986 government in the world believ e it was laid solely because of Russian technology fault. One of the advantages using uranium is cheaper than fossil fuel. In additional, damages to the environment was better compare to gas, oil, coal. In Japan, nuclear power plant give benefit to local community and make them rich.

Immortal Empire is an interesting book written by Marcos Benevides and illustrated by Alice Carrol. This book is one of the Atama-ii books. A series of beginner easy level English for above 11 years old readers. You can find out more at http://www.atama-ii.com/ .This series is really entertaining, because it allow us to interactively take the role as the main character, and create our own story line. Up to eight different plots are available and lead to eight different closures. Some pages have instruction, whether to continue to the next page, or choose between few options and jump to particular page. You have to follow the guidance, and don`t read the book from the first page to the last page. On the first page you will find the story map, that will outline the story and their corresponding pages. This story map is very useful, because one or several ending are completely different, and in order to change the ending we need to return back to the previous

Hi, My name is Priyambodo Nur Ardi Nugroho, since my name is quite long, you could call me Dido. I`m Indonesian, living in Surabaya, East Java. I`m working as University Lecturer at Politeknik Perkapalan Negeri Surabaya (PPNS). Currently I`m pursuing my doctoral degree in Kumamoto University, Japan. My major is mechanical engineering, and I`m studying about energy conversion, especially biomass gasification.