新世纪研究生公共英语教材阅读 A Unit 14.ppt

Unit Fourteen Plagiarism Exposed at University Warm-up Group Discussion: Discuss the following statement in a group of four to see how far you agree with it. “If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.” Text Learning The five Ws and an H about the text: Who: Ansymana Koroma/Swansea University What: Academic plagiarism (MSc student copied PhD thesis) When: When Ansymana Koroma appealed against a decision not to award him a PhD. Where: At Swansea University Why: Academics are not supposed to copy other’s work How: From one topic of conversation to another Text Learning What helped Mr. Koroma find plagiarism problem? When someone suggested giving his research results to some MSc student. Text Learning What does Kevin Moloney mean by “The reputation of British education abroad is a bubble just waiting to burst.” The whole British education system will be discredited especially for overseas students. Text Learning As for plagiarism, What is the Swansea University’s opinion? Negative, a tacit approval of such a behavior. Translation Practice 1. The annual migrations of wildfowl and many other animals certainly cannot be regarded as a form of exploration, because such movements are actually only shifts from one habitat to another for the purpose of avoiding seasonal climatic variations. 野生禽类和许多其他动物每年的迁徙，当然不能被看做是一种探险行为，因为，这些迁徙活动实际上只是从一个栖息地转移到另一个栖息地，以躲避气候的季节性变化。 Translation Practice 2. Such variations in size，shape，chemistry, conduction speed，excitation threshold，and the like as had been demonstrated in nerve cells remained negligible in significance (for any possible correlation with the manifold dimensions of mental experience). 类似于这些已经被在神经细胞中证明的在大小、形状、化学过程、产生的速度、兴奋阈值及其类似的方面上所发生变化，当它们被用来与大脑体验的方方面面以可能的方式联系起来的时候，它们在重要性上仍然是微不足道的。 Translation Practice 3.This historical distinction attracted attention to her works early in the present century, even when the music of most of her male contemporaries, and, indeed, most