科技英语写作unit-8.pptVIP

Unit 8 Result, Discussion and Conclusion Topical Highlights: Section of Results: General function and contents, writing requirements, examples and some useful expressions. Section of Discussion: General functions and main elements, writing requirements . Section of Conclusion: general functions and main elements, requirement, samples for conclusion and some useful expressions Special Attention: conciseness(1) – using non-finites, using replacement of attributes, using adverbs Section of Results: The section of results is one of the most important elements in a professional paper, because any research should have an outcome, no matter what it may be. It is in this section that the final results of the paper are presented. 1) General Functions and Contents of Results The value of a research lies in the value of its final results and the authors interpretation of the results. If the preceding sections of a paper (Introduction, Investigations, Experiments, Calculations, etc.) are designed to explain how the author obtains the results, and the following sections of the paper (Analysis, Discussion, Summary or Conclusion, etc.) are to tell what the results should mean. Then, in the section of results, the author(s) should bring about a solid foundation on which the whole paper rests, by boiling down all the facts and data he has gained. In terms of content, research results are usually presented together with the corresponding analysis concerned. So in this section the author should present the essential results and data and then generalize them to a theoretical height. Therefore there are usually two ingredients in the section of results: full presentation of the specific data of the work and detailed analysis of the results (esp. when there is no special section of Data Analysis in the paper). 2) Writing Requirements for Results In the section of result, the following two points should be kept in mind. First, any dat