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Reference Notes Unit 1 Planning Your Future Career Reading Focus Traits of the Key Players Information Notes 1. Abridged from the Tooling Up column series, this passage is of report style targeting at readers working in the academia or graduate students planning to find a suitable job in the industry setting. It is meant to facilitate readers with up-to-date information concerning the requirements of industry. Being both a chemist and a column writer, the author impresses readers with his objectiveness and conciseness in the presentation. Quotations from life experiences of real people who have been familiar with either academia or industry or both are used at full length so as to make every trait he puts forward more reliable. The use of many long sentences such as relative clauses, adverbial clauses not only creates the effect of considered reasoning, but also contributes to the well-knit organization. Because of the strength in those aspects mentioned above, the passage is especially valuable to those who are confronted with the task of career planning. 2. Reference phone calls Usually the contact information of the reference such as name, address, telephone number is provided by yourself, the job applicant. 3. The acronym AAAS is the abbreviation for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (美国科学促进协会，set up in Boston in 1848, Science is its main magazine, the headquarters is in Washington), the worlds largest nonprofit membership association for science-related professionals. Produced by AAAS, sciencecareers.org is the most comprehensive source of science-related employment opportunities, funding announcements, and career develop- ment articles on the Intemet. Scientists and engineers in academia, industry, and government come to sciencecareers. org to find jobs and then return again and again to gain skills they need to land jobs and build their careers. 4. The $cienceCareers Forum is a professional, industrial, academic, and postdo