1a-清华科技英语写作课件.pdfVIP

Scientific Writing and Presentation in English A. Godfrey Tsinghua University, Spring Semester 2008 General introduction to the course: • course objectives: – to structure your article to follow a clear argument – to understand the scientific publication process – to learn how to proof-read an article – to avoid some of the most common errors in style and grammar • practice is the only way to improve – each paper you write can be better than the previous one Scientific Writing: Lecture 1 #2 Course evaluation • exercises in class (a few – as time permits) – not individually evaluated • exercises outside class – not evaluated (discuss next class – review material) • evaluated written assignment – writing a short paper – proof-reading a piece of text • “Common Mistakes” – clearly marked (**) – will be marked more critically Scientific Writing: Lecture 1 #3 This is a course in English.. – discussing issues of the use of the English language in English • If you do not understand something please say so (in English…)! Scientific Writing: Lecture 1 #4 The course will cover several study areas • (1) English grammar – must be correct – can be very useful to help make your paper stronger • (2) Issues specific to Scientific writing – convention – style / formatting / organization of ideas • (3) Discussion of example writing – published articles – draft versions of your papers? • I will try and mix these up in each class – nobody wants to sit through 90 minutes of grammar… • and I don’t want to teach 90 minutes of grammar