Lecture 9 Writing the Acknowledgements Acknowledgements have a two fold purpose (1) to express the research scientists appreciation publicly to persons, groups or institutions that have provided assistance in performing and publishing the research 2) to make clear the scientific contributions that others have made to the research Acknowledgements should not only include published materials, but also the unpublished as well as assistance given orally However, we should refrain from making acknowledgements for trivial contributions such as the corrections of English of the text Ex. 1 This research was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. We thank Beijing Pharmaceuticals for supply ing us with the monoclonal antibody for our studies Ex. 2 This research was supported in part by a grant from the Educational Commission of shaanxi. and from the shaanxi Province natural Foundation China Ex. 3 The authors gratefully acknowledge helpful discussions with Dr. C. Li. We also thank dr g. wang for assistance with the nmr spectra. One of us( D Li)thank the Shaanxi Normal University for the award of a research fellowship Ex. 4 We thank the University of Bath for financial support and Hewlett- Packard plc for funding the X-ray diffractometerLecture 9 Writing the Acknowledgements . Acknowledgements have a two fold purpose: (1) to express the research scientists appreciation publicly to persons, groups or institutions that have provided assistance in performing and publishing the research (2) to make clear the scientific contributions that others have made to the research. Acknowledgements should not only include published materials, but also the unpublished as well as assistance given orally. However, we should refrain from making acknowledgements for trivial contributions such as the corrections of English of the text. Ex. 1 This research was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. We thank Beijing Pharmaceuticals for supplying us with the monoclonal antibody for our studies Ex. 2 This research was supported in part by a grant from the Educational Commission of Shaanxi, and from the Shaanxi Province Natural Foundation, China Ex. 3 The authors gratefully acknowledge helpful discussions with Dr. C. Li. We also thank Dr G.Wang for assistance with the NMR spectra. One of us ( D.Li ) thank the Shaanxi Normal University for the award of a research fellowship. Ex. 4 We thank the University of Bath for financial support and Hewlett- Packard plc for funding the X-ray diffractometer