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Using Old / New Information Order in a Sentence
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If you want to make information clear to your reader, it is often useful to use the following structure:
the old (or known) information is placed at the beginning of the sentence
the new (or unknown) information is placed at the end of the sentence.
Example 1
Populations of co-existing, closely related, but diverging variants of HCV RNA molecules (Old information) are termed
qausispecies (new information). Quasispecies (old information) occur in many RNA viruses (new information).
Example 2
This example shows how the old/new information structure works over a whole paragraph, and has a table that identifies
the old and new information in each sentence.
“Antibiotic resistant microorganisms have significantly compromised antibiotic treatment. A large proportion of resistance
in Gram-negative bacteria can be attributed to resistance gene cassettes contained within a site-specific recombination
system, termed the integron. Mobile cassettes contain genes that confer resistance to nearly every major class of
antibiotic, and some disinfectants. New gene cassettes continue to be identified and the sequences of over 60 cassettes
are deposited in the GenBank/EMBL databases, as of January 2001. This rapid increase in the identification of gene
cassettes has led to the same name being given to two different gene cassettes, or the incorrect naming of gene
cassettes. This letter aims to clarify the current nomenclature for the aadA and dfr families of genes.” (White 2007)
Table of old and new information
Old Information
New Information
Antibiotic resistant microorganisms
antibiotic treatment
A large proportion of resistance in Gramnegative bacteria
resistance gene cassettes contained within a site-specific
recombination system, termed the integron.
Mobile cassettes
genes
that
resistance to nearly every major class of antibiotic, and some
disinfectants
New gene cassettes
the sequences of over 60 cassettes
the GenBank/EMBL databases
This rapid increase in the identification of
gene cassettes
the same name being given to two different gene cassettes, or the
incorrect naming of gene cassettes
This letter
the current nomenclature for the aadA and dfr families of genes
Exercise: Practice using old / new information
Using Old / New Information Order in a Sentence
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