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  2. Technical writing - Wikipedia

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    Technical writing is the writing of technical content, particularly relating to industrial and other applied sciences, with an emphasis on occupational contexts. [1] The range of audiences for technical writing varies widely. By far, the most common form of technical writing is for procedural documentation (standardized, step-by-step guides).

  3. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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    The teacher as reading instructor is a role model of a reader for students, demonstrating what it means to be an effective reader and the rewards of being one. Reading comprehension levels. Reading comprehension involves two levels of processing, shallow (low-level) processing and deep (high-level) processing.

  4. Scientific consensus - Wikipedia

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    There are many philosophical and historical theories as to how scientific consensus changes over time. Because the history of scientific change is extremely complicated, and because there is a tendency to project "winners" and "losers" onto the past in relation to the current scientific consensus, it is very difficult to come up with accurate and rigorous models for scientific change.

  5. Lecture - Wikipedia

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    A lecture at the University of Bologna in Italy in the mid-fourteenth century. The lecturer reads from a text on the lectern while students in the back sleep. Barbara McClintock delivers her Nobel lecture. A lecture (from Latin: lēctūra'reading') is an oral presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular ...

  6. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - Wikipedia

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    A high school student explains her engineering project to a judge in Sacramento, California, United States (2015). Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is an umbrella term used to group together the distinct but related technical disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

  7. Engineering - Wikipedia

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    Definition. The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development (ECPD, the predecessor of ABET) has defined "engineering" as: . The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or ...

  8. Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable machines to perceive their environment and uses learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals.

  9. Knowledge engineering - Wikipedia

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    These issues led to the second approach to knowledge engineering: development of custom methodologies specifically designed to build expert systems. One of the first and most popular of such methodologies custom designed for expert systems was the Knowledge Acquisition and Documentation Structuring (KADS) methodology developed in Europe. KADS ...