Lesson Six课件.ppt

Lesson Six Disappearing through the Skylight ------- By Oshborne Bennet Hardison Jr. Aims To know the features of scientific writing. To analyse the structure of the text. To understand the deeper meaning of the text. To appreciate the language features Teaching Contents 1. Scientific writing 2. Structuralism and the main idea of the text. 3. Detailed study of the text 4. Organizational pattern 5. Language features 6. Exercises  Time allocation Writing style (15 min.) Introduction of the text (20min.) Detailed study of the text (100 min.) Structure analysis (15 min.) Language appreciation (15 min.) Exercises (15 min) Scientific writing (English for science and technology) 1. technical terms cylinder block; carburettor; thermodynamics; etc. 2. objective: relying on facts, not involve emotion, seldom use figures of speech, exclamation the use of present tense the use of passive voice Scientific writing 3. sentences: a) complete no contractions (dept -- department) b) long 1) compound sentences 2) appositions 3) parenthesis 4) logical connectors such as : however; but; also; yet; finally; while; as ; not only; just as ...so; etc. Scientific writing Generally this technical writing tends to be very formal. Yet the characteristics of any kind of language style is not absolute. In order to meet the needs of the work for popular science, many scientific workers try to adopt a more popular style. Then there comes a popular scientific and technical writing style. Characteristics limit the use of technical terms examples--- to make the writing more vivid and appealing to the readers Characteristics figures of speech-- to make the sentences figurative so that the readers can easily understand and associate them with what they are familiar with noun pre-modifiers game theory; human growth genes; theme park; museum villages;world car; etc Structuralism Structuralism is a mode of thinking and a method of analysis practiced in 20th-c