西安电子科技大学 研究生 科技英语 PPT.pptVIP

Technical English Reading Writing Background Information Course Introduction Textbooks Teaching Arrangements Assessments Background – Meeting the Needs English is the common language of the international technical professions. Business people working in the technical sectors are increasingly required to have a working knowledge of Technical English. Most of the world’s technical literature is printed in English. The danger of not publishing in English is that worthwhile results will be ignored because they are not accessible to many main stream scientists. the 1930’s German smoking lung cancer the 1960’s Surveys from engineering employers: engineering graduates have proficient technical skills, but their communication and interpersonal skills are lacking. Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation(2007) list of “significant competency gaps among newly hired engineering graduates”: written communication and oral communication. Potential authors and presenters with limited skills in English are unable to participate in conferences and publications. Disputes about paper quality among authors, reviewers and editors sometimes evolve around proper English. Concept – Technical English The direct economic impact of technology licensing on the universities themselves has been relatively small. Sales of beef tumbled by a third in France, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium. One very dark night I directed thus on their way two young men who had been fishing in the pond. Scope of Technical English Scientific paper Experimental report / instruction Manuals Periodic/ progress reports Technical proposal Description of and explanation for natural phenomena Some Properties of Technical English High semantic density Short sentences, domain-specific vocabulary, simple and direct structures A desire to be neutral and objective Impersonal forms—passive voice is commonplace The pronoun “I” and “We” are rarely used Rhetorical expressi