第一节课Featuresofacademicwriting.ppt

Academic English Writing Lectured By Cui Hua cumtcuihua@163.com Tel Overview of the course Objectives: To acquaint students with how to write an academic paper in English. To prepare students for publishing papers in international journals. Publish or perish! Reference resources The recommended course book: 胡庚申：英语论文写作与发表 (English paper writing publication)，高等教育出版社，2003。 Other reference books: Note: You may approach The Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing at the website /mayfieldpub/tsw/home.htm You can reach other reference books mentioned below at Super Star E-library (超星数字图书馆). cont. Booth, V. (1993). Communication in science: Writing a scientific paper and speaking at scientific meetings. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press. Day, R. A. (1998). How to write and publish a scientific paper (5th ed.). Phoenix: Oryx Press. Devlin, B. (2002). International standards for students writing. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press. Perelman, L. C., Paradis, J., Barrett, E. (1998). The Mayfield handbook of technical and scientific writing. Mountain View: Mayfield. Slade, C. (2000). Form and style: Research papers, reports and theses. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. Watson, G. (2003). Writing a thesis: A guide to long essays and dissertations. Chengdu: Sichuan University Press. Major contents The course primarily focuses on the essentials with each of the structure elements of IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion) of scientific papers. The course also deals with technical requirements for paper publication. The course also introduces some tools that can help us edit and revise our papers such as StyleWriter and the bibliography management software Endnote. Course requirements Regular class attendance Active participation in class activities Timely and successful completion of assignments Good performance in the final exam Everyday performance (40%) Final exam (60%) Effectiveness in academic wri