西南科技大学学术英语写作期末测试题.docVIP

西南科技大学2011-2012-2学期 《学术英语写作》本科期末考试试卷 课程代码 20 8 9 0 0 0 7 0 命题单位 外国语学院：大学英语教研室 exercises in the test. You may choose one and do it according to its requirement. Exercises 1 Direction: Write an abstract (including a title, authorship and keywords) for the following essay. You should write no less than 250 words and no more than 400 words. You score will be valued by the format, content and grammar of your abstract. The University of Hertfordshire Internal Bridging Programme prepares Students in Higher Education for post-graduate study at the University of Hertfordshire. To follow the programme, students usually have a first degree and the appropriate academic qualifications to enroll on a Masters degree. However, the students English competence is inadequate for a postgraduate course so it is necessary for them to improve it. Hence they need to follow our course or a similar one elsewhere. It is a one-year course and the students take several different modules. The largest module is English for Academic Purposes. It consists of 16 hours per week of class contact in Semester A and 6 hours per week in Semester B. The main aims of the Semester B course are to: improve the students command of academic English: language structure, use and vocabulary consolidate their language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking in academic contexts put to practical use appropriate academic conventions observed in British higher education acquire a range of transferable academic skills essential for effective study at postgraduate level ridevelop learner independence. By the end of the course they should have a knowledge and understanding of: relevant conventions followed in academic English (both written and oral) the difference between the informal and formal registers of the English language what is linguistically expected of an overseas postgraduate student in British higher education. and they should be able to: listen to, understand and take notes in lectur