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Friday, February 16, 2018

How to Use the Hypertext Narrative Creator on the Virtual Writing Tutor


Create hypertext narratives with the Virtual Writing Tutor, and improve your vocabulary, grammar, and digital literacy skills in the process.

Embedded Hypertext Narrative

Chemistry and Pharmacology

Chemistry and Pharmacology

A hypertext narrative by

Nicholas Walker

Created with

The Virtual Writing Tutor Grammar Checker

Next

Word count: 766

Choice count: 4

Section count: 20

Image count: 20

Error count: 0

Field Related Analysis:

Education : 16 matches (School, ability, campus, choice, college, degree, don, learn, major, project, reader, research, school, semester, test, university)

Nursing : 14 matches (cancer, test, effects, foot, fungus, mushroom, nervous, pharmacist, pharmacology, reaction, species, treatment, treat, chemistry)

Biology : 11 matches (cancer, drive, family, nervous system, pharmacology, reaction, shoot, species, spectroscopy, humans, laboratory)

Target Structure:

a foot in the door (1 match)

background check (1 match)

learn the ropes (1 match)

Next

Chemistry and Pharmacology

Montmorency College

Start at the beginning.

I'm studying Sciences at Montmorency College to become a pharmacist. It's my final year of college, and I'm perplexed. I'm not sure which university I want to go to.

Choice 1 : Go to the University of Montreal.

Choice 2 : Go to the University of Laval.

By Université_de_Montréal.JPG: Colocho derivative work: Chicoutimi [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Go to the University of Montreal.

I am happy that I have chosen to study at the University of Montreal. I love the professors here, and I'm happy that I am close to my family and friends. After two years of study, this is my last year at university. I wonder what I can do after finishing my studies.

Choice 1 : Work for the army as a chemist.

Choice 2 : Get a foot in the door as a research laboratory chemist.

By René Bélanger [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons

Go to the University of Laval.

I decided to move to Quebec and live on the campus of the University of Laval. I have been living here for 2 months, and it's almost the end of the semester. I'm tired of all these exams and I miss my family and friends. I seriously wonder if I want to continue my studies. What should I do?

Write a choice here.

Military chemists at work

Work for the army as a chemist.

I decided to join the army. After the mandatory background check, I receive a modest salary with benefits since I work for the Canadian Forces. The Sergeant Major has just told me that he is forming a group made up entirely of chemists to work on a top-secret project. He wants me to learn the ropes and then to synthesize a chemical that is easily diffused in the air and has the ability to attack a person's nervous system. The amount that we have been asked to synthesize is enough to kill millions of people! What have I gotten myself into?

Write a choice here.

By User:SPat (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Work in a research laboratory as a chemist.

I have been working for 5 years in this laboratory looking for a cure for cancer. The equipment I use allows me to produce the compounds I want, and infrared spectroscopy allows me to check the purity of these products. My data tells me that it is better to add spores of a new species of mushroom that grows in Brazil to treat cancer. I don't know if it's a good idea since I don't know the effects of this fungus on humans.

Write a choice here.

By Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (Hungnam Chemical Fertilizer Company) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Start your own chemical company.

Write this part of the story here and present your reader with choices.

Write a choice here.

By Jakec (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Agree to join the top-secret group.

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Write a choice here.

Write a choice here.

By Gorup de Besanez (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Refuse to join the top-secret group.

Write this part of the story here and present your reader with choices.

Write a choice here.

Bomb design

Fix the problem in the protocol.

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Write a choice here.

By U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Aaron Peterson. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Say nothing and hope that the reaction doesn't work.

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By Rev. Thomas Davidson 1856-1923 (ed.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Stay late and wait for the Sergeant Major.

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By Bryan Ledgard (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ledgard/8151413400/) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Add the mushroom spores to the treatment.

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Write a choice here.

Test the remedy now.

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Write a choice here.

Kill them both and destroy the treatment.

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Try to scare them away with the gun.

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Bang-bang, shoot them both.

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Bang! Shoot myself.

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Write a choice here.

I started to feel strange.

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Write a choice here.

Quit school and drive a bus.

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Write a choice here.

Continue studying at school and finish my degree.

Write this part of the story here and present your reader with choices.

Write a choice here.

The End.

My Chemistry and Pharmacology Hypertext Narrative


Saturday, January 20, 2018

Chemistry and Pharmacy

Introduction to My Blog

In this blog you will learn about me and my adventures in my program.