AcademicWriting[4]英语专业论文写作.ppt

Thesis Organization,Contents,Abstract,Whats the scope of discussion? Whats the background information? Whats the purpose of research? What are the methods of research? What are the discoveries? What are the implication?,Abstract,Topic Specification (TS) Background Information (BI) Purpose Statement (PS) Methodology and Data (MD) Results/Findings (RF) Implications/Conclusions (IC),1-2: TS 3-5: time and place, who and what; not BI 6: PS + MD RF + IC, not mentioned,An abstract is condensed because of its summarizing nature. It has no redundancy. The following example is taken from the abstract for a conference. (1)Translations “refer to the process and resultof transferring a text from the source,Introduction,Introducing the topic Focusing on the issue Reviewing previous research Discussing deficiencies in previous research Propose a “new/different” way of investigation,Focusing on the issue,The purpose of this study is to investigate one of the consequences of the significances of the simplification phenomenon, i.e. a reduction in lexical density, in a number of texts. the present paper aims to synthesize studies in linguistics and communication into the research into dubbing, focusing on the pragmatic comprehension of this form of translation. The present study extends previous research in the following ways. First, Secondly, Finally,The Introduction is an overview of the whole study. It is usually short without technical details and can be understood even by most casual readers. You should take care to present sufficient information for the reader to get an overall picture of the study.,In Literature Review, the relevant existing literature is reviewed to indicate what has already been done and what problems remain to be solved. Equipped with the knowledge of this chapter, the reader can visualize the research context in which the link between the proposed study and the previous ones is displayed and its potential contribution to the existing literature is demonstrated.,The Methodology part describes the design of the proposed study. It includes general as well as specific research questions or hypotheses, information about subjects, instruments, the procedures for data-collection and data-analysis. The information presented in this part should be so explicit and transparent that any other researcher can easily replicate your study if he or she wants t