ROAR Book: To Engineer Is Human

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5.Comments:

• I don't think I would read Thomas McKaig's book titled "Building Failures".
• I don't think I would read D.I. Blockley's book titled "The Nature of Structural Design and Safety".
• In both of the books that I have just mentioned there are a lot of reasons why structures fail; some structures fail due to vehicle impact, lack of sufficient preliminary information.
• I don't think I would like to become an engineer when I grow up.
• This is an informative book that I would suggest others who are interested in engineering to read.

4.Questions:

• Who is Nevil Shute?
• Who is Robert Byrne?
• What does the ENR stand for?
• Who is Steven S. Ross?

3.Vocabulary:

• Connoisseurs: A person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts
• Paradigm: a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, esp. the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme
• Postmortem: occurring after the end of something; after the event

2.Literary Terms:

• Indirect Characterization: Thomas McKaig's book Building Failures is a widely known collection of case studies intended for the use of engineers, architects, and contractors." (page 204). Thomas McKaig is a writer and engineer.
• Simile: "Engineers cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines." (page 215)

1.Overview Sentence:

• Describes different books that explain the causes of structure failures and how the causes occur; this is the end of the book.