英文科技写作L1.pdfVIP

Scientific Writing and Presentation in English A. Godfrey Tsinghua University, Sep. 2003 General introduction to the course: • course objectives: – to structure your article to follow a clear argument – understand the scientific publication process – 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 1 Course evaluation • scientific course/English writing class.. • exercises in class (not individually evaluated) • exercises outside class – not evaluated (discuss next class – review material) – evaluated (1) after all the grammatical points are covered) • 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 English language in English • If you do not understand something please say so! Scientific Writing: Lecture 1 #4 2 The course will cover several study areas • (1) English grammar – must be correct – can be very useful to help make your paper stronger • (2) Scientific writing specific issues – convention – style • (3) Discussion of example writing – published articles – draft versions of y