英文科技写作L2b.pdfVIP

Scientific Writing and Presentation in English Lecture 2-b: How to write your paper A. Godfrey Tsinghua University, Sep. 2003 Writing is only (the last) part of writing a paper… • objective: – a set of guidelines to show that you can build up a paper by a series of steps • helps to ensure that you maintain the main idea of your paper throughout • removes the need to consider English language problems until the last stage Scientific Writing: Lecture 2b #2 1 You will see this list many times during this course… • define – the problem that you wish to address • choose – the data that you will include to support your idea • organize – the data and arguments to support your idea • write the paper • Three important steps before you start writing! Scientific Writing: Lecture 2b #3 The writing part can also be broken down into a number of steps • begin with simple statements of the idea you wish to describe • write each as a single sentence • expand to 2-3 sentences to include the important detail • group the sentences to form the content of each paragraph • finally combine the sentences to make “good English” Scientific Writing: Lecture 2b #4 2 The procedure is best illustrated by an example.. • paper for Japan MRS meeting • first thing: read any style instructions! – 4 pages maximum (means 4 pages) – TimesRoman 9pt font; single spaced; fixed paper size