英语学术论文写作纲要.doc

英语学术论文写作Course Title: Effective Academic Writing in English: an Essential GuideCourse Numbers: 1800000106Type of course: Major compulsory Hours per week: 1Credit: 1Duration: 18 hoursText and Materials: Aimin cheng, Shouhua Qi, Effective Academic Writing in English：An Essential Guide, 2010, Shanghai Foreign Education Press, ISBN: 9787810956819Course description:Academic Writing is one of the key courses for university students majoring in English in China. This course is designed to help students learn how to write a course paper and/or a BA thesis and to lay a foundation for writing more advanced academic papers in English for their future career.The course is an essential guide to effective academic writing in English, by that it does not to cover every single one of all the important issues that are related to academic writing. That would have been a much more ambitious project with a much more comprehensive approach than has been adopted by the book. Course contents:Part 1 General features of Academic WritingChapter 1 Academic Writing: An Introductionl Academic writing: A definitionl Characteristics of Good Academic Writing Good writing calls for critical reading and critical thinking Good writing involves thoughtful revision Good writing is directed toward an audience Good writing achieves a clear purpose Good writing expresses ideas clearly Good writing pluses with creativityChapter 2 Kinds of Academic Writing l Writing to summarize l Writing to synthesizel Writing to explainWriting to informWriting to explain processesWriting to explain l Writing to ArgueThe logical AppealThe Emotional AppealThe Ethical AppealFive Basic Componentsl Writing to proposel Writing to analyzel Writing to evaluateChapter 3 The rhetorical context and characteristics of Academic Writingl The rhetorical contestTopic or subjectAudiencePurpose and rolel Characteristics of Academic papersPart Process of Effective Academic WritingChapter 4 Finding a Topicl Process of Writingl Assessing your Prior Interest and Knowledgel Narrowing the Topic-Creating a Good Titlel Techniques for Inventing Free writing Brainstorming Branching Cubing Questioning or Journalistic Formulal Generating New Ideas by Critical ReadingChapter 5 Researching the Topicl Field research ObservingInterviewingUsing questionnairel Library researchTaking notesInternet researchl Keeping track of your researchl A six-step Approach to ResearchChapter 6 Outliningl The structure of a paperl Storing out your notes and other Materialsl Outlining Draft OutlineFormal OutlineTwo Commonly Used patterns of Formal outlinesFormulating the thesis statementChapter 7 drafting, Revising, Editing and Proofreadingl Draftingl Revising Revising for content and Organization-Macro-revision Revising for detail-Micro-Revisionl Final Editing and ProofreadingPart III Strategies for Effective Academic WritingChapter 8 organizing the paperl Five basic Organizational patternsGeneral to specific/ abstract to concreteSpecific to general /concrete to abstractOrder of ImportantChronological OrderSpatial OrderOther Organizational Patternsl IntroductionNarrativeDescriptivePreparatoryCorrectiveInquisitiveStating a problemGiving a surprising fact or statisticsUsing a striking quotel ConclusionRestating the Main PointsReferring back to the thesis and the introductionSuggesting a solution further study or predicting an outcomeGiving a humorous comment or unexpected twistUsing a striking or Memorable QuoteChapter 9 strategies for Developmentl DefinitionSentence definitionExtended definitionHistorical definitionStipulate definitionl ClassificationChoosing the principle to classifyTesting the effectivenessExplaining each subgroupl ExampleRelevant examplesSpecific examplesSufficient examplesl Comparison and contrastPoints for comparing and contrastingTwo ways for organizing comparison and contrastTransitional words and phrasesl Course and effectDistinguishing between cause and EffectNecessity, sufficiently and mills methodsOrganizing cause and effect analysisTransitional words and phrases for cause and effect analysisl Generalizationl Visual elementsChapter 10 Use of Sources and Documentationl Importance of Usi