南京大学博士生英语课程.docx

2015级博士生英语考试（2015-2016学年）DOCTORATE ENGLISH QUALIFYING TESTEnglish for Academic Communication（任课教师：从丛）Graduate School, Nanjing UniversityDecember 24, 2015SECTION I I学术诚信是学术界的道德准则和伦理政策。它包括价值观，例如对作弊和抄袭的避免；学术准则的维护；以及研究工作和学术出版过程中的诚信和严谨。永远谨记，以下学术欺骗行为均被认为是腐败或愚蠢行为：剽窃：在没有给予信用或应有的认可的情况下，采用或复制其他作者（个人、集体、组织、共同作者或其他类型，包括匿名作者）的原始创作。造假：在任何正式的学术活动中对数据、信息或引用进行伪造。破坏：采取行动阻止他人完成其工作，比如蓄意破坏他人的实验。署名作者欺骗：那些做出显著贡献的人未被列入共同作者；或者，并不是所有的共同作者都肯定了论文的最终版本及已同意发表出版。II（1）In the accessory, there is a thesis named Cloud Computing: Large Data and Cloud Service, completed by me, Xianlin Su, and other co-authors. Please check it! The main conclusions of the article were verbal reported in 3th International Symposium on Computer Science and Application that held by Harvard University in November, 2015. On this basis, the in-depth discussions of our main findings were made. Hope to be accepted on the magazine of Computer Science and Application.(2)We are so sorry to send you for withdraw the thesis, which was number as MS123, entitled the Cause and Prevention on Fog-haze. In the further experiments after the article was submitted, we found that the experimental data reported in the thesis cannot be repeated. Because the experimental equipment type we now using is different with the former one before writing of the paper, and for caution, we need a certain time for further verification. After the experiment and paper been verified and revised respectively, we will submit to your journal again then.SECTION II ACADEMIC WRITINGIDear Prof. Brocca:I am a PhD Candidate in Nanjing University, China. My name is Yu Xu, male, birthed in 1989. I am writing to you to apply for a visiting scholars position in you institution.In recent years, I have already done several programs about combinational influence on hydrology by the global change (mainly precipitation, temperature, and further for evapotranspiration), land use/cover change and river system change in the Delta of Yangtze River. Through the research works, I have mastered a series of analysis methods on meteorological observation data and models to simulate the flood process. Furthermore, I also use my own advantages of geography background, solving the hydrological problems with the method of subject crossing. In the past 2 years, I have published 6 theses in important journals at home and abroad. Of course, I can also collaborate with others well, and this is not a problem for me at all.Through the articles you have published, I acknowledge the similarity between our research and the advance of your achievement. So I yearn for the opportunity to study and cooperate with you. I believe that this chance will be a nice experience for me, and I will have a fruitful harvest.As is well-known that Nanjing University has a very good reputation in the world. In the past years, we have showed great time and devotion to the study of hydrology, and have made lots of achievements. My supervisor, Prof. Xu, has given full play to regional advantages, and analyzed the hydrological problems in Taihu Catchment exhaustively. So I think national cooperation is necessary.In view of these, I hope this academic exchange will enhance my capacity for scientific research and promote the comprehensive to a certain extent between you and China.Whats more, I have obtained funding from the Chinese government that will support me to do research activities.I would appreciate it if you could consider my application. I look forward to your reply. Along with the accessory, my curriculum vitae was been send. Please check it!Sincerely yours, School of Geographic and Oceanographic ScienceNanjing University Yu Xu IICurriculum VitaeXU Yu, Ph.D.School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing UniversityMail address: School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, Peoples Republic of ChinaPhone: Email:PERSONAL DATAYu Xu. Male. Birth time: September, 1989. ChineseRESEARCH FIELDUrban hydrologyClimatic hydrologyFlood simulationCatastropheWater resourceOBJECTIVESeeking for a visiting scholar position specializing in hydrology and water resourcesEDUCATION BACKGROUNDPh.D. in hydrology and water resources, Physical GeographyNanjing University (Nanjing, China), 2015 Thesis: Temporal and spatial patterns of the meteorological drought in Chongqing during recent 50 years (Accepted by the Journal of Water and Soil Conservation Research, in Chinese).Spatial-temporal Trends of Reference Crop Evapotranspiration and its Influential Variables in Eastern China (In the manuscript, in English).B.E. in Physical Geography Southwest University of China (Chongqing, China), 2012 - 2015 Thesis: Reference Crop Evapotranspiration and Surface Humidity Index in Chongqing City (Accepted by the Journal of Water and Soil Conservation Research, in Chinese)Temporal and Spatial Variations of Meteorological Drought in Chongqing from 1960 to 2008 based on Surface Humidity Index (Accepted by Journal of Southwest University: Natural Science Edition, in Chinese).Temporal and Spatial Variations of Meteorological Drought in Chongqing in Recent 50 Years. Water and Soil Conservation Research (Accepted, in Chinese).Wu. Y.F., Xu. Y., Xu. G., Gan. F.F., 2016. Evaluation of Arable Land Resource in Anhui Province. Journal of Southwest Normal University (Accepted, in Chinese).Wu. Y.F., Xu. Y., Xu. G., Gan. F.F., 2016. Influential Elements of Per Unit Area Grain Yield and the Meteorological Disaster Risk Assessment of Grain Crops in Anhui Province. Journal of Chinese Agricultural University (Accepted, in Chinese) .Gan. F.F., Xu. G., Xu. Y., Wu. Y.F., 2016. Research on Earthquake: A Case in Sichuan and Chongqing. Journal of Southwest Normal University (Accepted, in Chinese).B.A. in Geographic ScienceWest Anhui University of China (LuAn, Anhui Province, China), 2008-2012Thesis: Research on Limited Factors in Tourism Development in Shouxian County, Anhui Province (in Chinese)AWARDS & HONORSMiyoshi Student Award in West Anhui University, 2009The first Prize for Excellent Student of Southwest University, 2012-2015Outstanding Graduates of Southwest University, 2015National scholarship for graduate students, 2014HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONSExtensive experience in operate the main flood simulation software;Expertise in dealing with large data.SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (Published and accepted papers)1. Xu. Y., Xu. G., Wu. Y.F., Gan. F.F., 2015. Reference Crop Evapotranspiration and Surface Humidity Index in Chongqing City. Water and Soil Conservation Research. 23 (2): 176-181 (in Chinese).2. Xu. Y., Xu. G., Wu. Y.F., Gan. F.F., 2016. Temporal and Spatial Variations of Meteorological Drought in Chongqing from 1960 to 2008 based on Surface Humidity Index. Journal of Southwest University: Natural Science Edition. (Accepted, in Chinese)3. Xu. Y., Xu. Y.P., Wu. Y.F., Wu. L., 2016. Temporal and Spatial Variations of Meteorological Drought in Chongqing in Recent 50 Years. Water and Soil Conservation Research. (Accepted, in Chinese)4. Xu. Y., Xu. Y.P., Wu. Y.F., Wu. L., Wang. Y.F., Li, G., Spatial-temporal Trends of Reference Crop Evapotranspiration and its Influential Variables in Eastern China. International Journal of Climatology. (In manuscript, in English).5. Xu. Y., Xu. Y.P., Wu. Y.F., Wu. L., Wang. Y.F., Li, G., Research on the Temporal and Spatial Variation of Humidity Index in Eastern China. International Journal of Climatology. Journal of Natural Resources. (In manuscript, in English).6. Wu. Y.F., Xu. Y., Xu. G., Gan. F.F., 2016. Evaluation of Arable Land Resource in Anhui Province. Journal of Southwest Normal University. (Accepted, in Chinese)7. Wu. Y.F., Xu. Y., Xu. G., Gan. F.F., 2016. Influential Elements of Per Unit Area Grain Yield and the Meteorological Disaster Risk Assessment of Grain Crops in Anhui Province. Journal of Chinese Agricultural University. (Accepted, in Chinese)8. Gan. F.F., Xu. G., Xu. Y., Wu. Y.F., 2016. Research on Earthquake: A Case in Sichuan and Chongqing. Journal of Southwest Normal University. (Accepted, in Chinese)Bio-statementYu Xu, Ph.D.My name is Yu Xu, a PhD student in School of Geographic and Oceanographic Science, Nanjing University, China. My major is physical geography, and my research orientation here is hydrology and water resource. I moved to Nanjing in 2015, after I got my Masters Degree in Southwest University in Chongqing Municipality. I have already had 8 articles been published and accepted in Chinese and international journals, though I am sure that there are only several people have read them. If you ask me about research interests in the coming years, I will tell you that what I want to develop in Nanjing University is mainly concentrated on the simulation of flood process and dynamic storage capacity in river system in the Delta of Yangtze River. Needless to say, I love research and I hope to go further on this sacred road.SECTION III Documenting Sources in journal PapersExample 1TitleThe paper named “Catchment scale soil moisture spatial-temporal variability” was published on Journal of Hydrology (J. Hydro). The article was received in 24 March, 2012 and available online in 18 February, 2013. IF (Impact Factor)J. Hydro is one of the most authoritative journals in the field of hydrology and water resources. The IF rose continually from 2007 on, when the IF was 2.15. And the IF rose to 3.05 in 2014. The format of title, citation in the text and reference are as follows:Title FormatTitles on this journal are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible. The format of title should be written in the format of lower case except of the first letter of the main title and subtitle, and the specific terms like toponymies. The main title and subtitle should be separated by semicolon.Citations in the text Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic citations lies entirely with the authors. All citations in the text in the J. Hydro should refer to:1. Single author: the authors family name and the year of publication, separated by comma; Examples: “, or more appropriately rank stability (Chen, 2006), for”; “Miralles (2010) obtained very similar results analyzing”2. Two authors: both authors names and connected by the conjunction of and, followed by the year of publication.Examples: “satellite sensors could be representative for smaller areas (Loew and Mauser, 2008), and, hence”3. Three or more authors: first authors name followed by et al. and the year of publication.Examples: “ such as flood prediction and forecasting (Brocca et al., 2010; Koster et al., 2010), numerical weather.”4. References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters “a”, “b”, “c”, etc., placed after the year of publication.Examples: “. has still to be tested (Brocca et al., 2010b, 2011). Geophysical.”5. Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically. For Notes containing more than one citation, references should be separated by a semi-colon. Examples: “. as demonstrated (Allan, 1996a, 1996b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1995). Kramer et al. (2000) have recently shown .”ReferenceThe references should be listed in alphabetical order at the back of the paper. All the authors name should be listed. In the reference, entries of the reference should use a hanging indent style with 2 characters, that is, the second line and subsequent lines should be indented while the first line should be flush with the left margin. Family name precedes the initials of first and middle name, typed with only the first letter as a capital (Examples: Allen, R.C.; Wang, J.,). Journal names should be abbreviated according to the List of Title Word Abbreviations (Examples: J. Hydro.; Hydro. Process.). Detail examples are as follows:Examples:Reference to an article:Bandyopadhayay, A., Bhadra, A., Raghuwanshi, N.S., Singh, R., 2009. Temporal trends in estimates of reference evapotranspiration over India. J. Hydrol. Eng. 14 (5), 508518.Ozdogan, M., Salvucci, G.D., 2016. Irrigation-induced changes in potential evapotranspiration in southeastern Turkey: test and application of Bouchers complementary hypothesis. Water Resour. Res. 40 (4), doi:10.1029/2003WR002822.Reference to an article in other languages except English:Ren, G.Y., Guo, J., Xu, Z.M., Chu, Z.Y., Zhang, L., Zou, X.K., L., Q.X., Liu, X.N., 2005. Climate change of Chinas mainland over the last half century. Acta Meterol. Sin. 63, 942956 (in Chinese).Reference to a conference paper:Allen, R.G., Pereira, L.S., Raes, D., Smith, M., 1998. Crop Evapotranspiration: Guideline for Computing Crop Water Requirement. FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper No. 56. Food and Agriculture Organization, Italy.Reference to a book:Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 1979. The Elements of Style, third ed. Macmillan, New York.Example 2TitleThe thesis titled “Spatial-temporal Variability of Soil Moisture and Its Estimation across Scale： A Case in Italy” was published on Water resource research (Water. Resources. Res).It was received in and 26th April, 2013 and available online, and 5th January, 2014.IF (Impact Factor)The IF of Water Resource Research is 3.6 in 2014. The impact factor (IF) rose continually from 2007 on, when the IF was the same with2.15 and rose to 3.05 and 3.6 in 2014 respectively. Title FormatThe title is in the format of upper and lower case, avoiding abbreviations and formulae where possible. The main title and subtitle should be separated by semicolon.Citations in the text 1. Single author: the authors family name and the year of publication, separated by comma. The authors name should be written in italic (similarly hereinafter); Examples: “improve hydrologic and climatic modeling and prediction .; Koster et al., 2004.”“In the results concluded by Zhang (2011), soil moisture.”2. Two authors: both authors names and connected by the conjunction of and, followed by the year of publication.Examples: “have been recently attracted great attention Wagner and Bouwer., 2007”3. Three or more authors: first authors name followed by “et al.” and the year of publication.Examples: “and soil moisture active and passive (SMAP) Entekhabi et al., 2008.”4. References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters “a”, “b”, “c”, etc., placed after the year of publication.Examples: “. extending their results to larger catchments. Brocca et al. 2009c, for five nested catchments.”5. Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically. For Notes containing more than one citation, references should be separated by a semi-colon. Examples: “. complex water balance models or detailed spatial measurements Longobardi et al., 2003; Brocca et al., 2009c .”ReferenceThe references should be listed in alphabetical order at the back of the paper. All the authors name should be listed. In the reference, entries of the reference should use a hanging indent style with 2 characters, that is, the second line and subsequent lines should be indented while the first line