5.6.1 研究性文章的研究性方法.pdf

The Methods Section of a Research Article Methods Contents 1. Components of the methods section 2. Five moves in the methods section 3. Linguistic features of the methods section 4. Lexical signals for the methods section 5. Reading skills of the methods section 6. Reading practice 1. Components of the method section • Research design • Materials • Procedure • Data collection • Data analysis • Research design • Materials • Procedure • Data collection Data analysis 2. Five moves in the methods section The methods chapter tells your reader ‘how’you carried out the research that was needed to answer your research questions. The methods sections/chapter functions to explain: Move 1: WHEN the study was carried out Move 2: WHERE the study was carried out Move 3: WHAT materials, techniques, samples, data, approaches, theoretical frameworks were used in the study Move 4: HOW the study was carried out Move 5: WHAT procedures were used 3. Linguistic features of the methods section • using the third person • passive voice • past tense • complete sentences • objective • concise 4. Lexical signals for the methods section • By /through+ gerund • Gerund: using employing dividing categorizing separating 5. Reading skills of the methods section • Follow the moves in the methods section • Follow the lexical signals • Identify the predicate of each sentence: past tense and passive voice 6. Reading practice 2. Materials and methods 2.1. Chemicals, water matrices and adsorbents (1) Table 1 summarizes the main physicochemical properties of selected micropollutants. (2) Although they all have rather similar molecular weight (MW), the ionization balance (expressed by the acid dissociation constant, pKa) and the hydrophobicit