英语学术论文写作
Course Title: Effective Academic Writing in English: an Essential Guide Course Numbers: 1800000106 Type of course: Major compulsory Hours per week: 1 Credit: 1 Duration: 18 hours Text and Materials:
Aimin cheng, Shouhua Qi, Effective Academic Writing in English：An Essential Guide, 2010,
Shanghai Foreign Education Press, ISBN: 9787810956819
Course 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 Writing
Chapter 1 Academic Writing: An Introduction
? Academic writing: A definition
? 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 creativity
Chapter 2 Kinds of Academic Writing
? Writing to summarize ? Writing to synthesize ? Writing to explain
Writing to inform
Writing to explain processes Writing to explain
? Writing to Argue
The logical Appeal The Emotional Appeal The Ethical Appeal
Five Basic Components
? Writing to propose ? Writing to analyze ? Writing to evaluate
Chapter 3 The rhetorical context and characteristics of Academic Writing ? The rhetorical contest
Topic or subject Audience
Purpose and role
? Characteristics of Academic papers
Part ⅡProcess of Effective Academic Writing
Chapter 4 Finding a Topic ? Process of Writing
? Assessing your Prior Interest and Knowledge ? Narrowing the Topic-Creating a Good Title ? Techniques for Inventing
Free writing
Brainstorming Branching Cubing
Questioning or Journalistic Formula
? Generating New Ideas by Critical Reading
Chapter 5 Researching the Topic
? Field research
Observing Interviewing
Using questionnaire
? Library research
Taking notes Internet research
? Keeping track of your research ? A six-step Approach to Research Chapter 6 Outlining
? The structure of a paper
? Storing out your notes and other Materials ? Outlining
Draft Outline
Formal Outline
Two Commonly Used patterns of Formal outlines
Formulating the thesis statement
Chapter 7 drafting, Revising, Editing and Proofreading
? Drafting ? Revising
Revising for content and Organization-Macro-revision Revising for detail-Micro-Revision ? Final Editing and Proofreading
Part III Strategies for Effective Academic Writing
Chapter 8 organizing the paper
? Five basic Organizational patterns
General to specific/ abstract to concrete Specific to general /concrete to abstract Order of Important Chronological Order Spatial Order
Other Organizational Patterns
? Introduction
Narrative Descriptive Preparatory Corrective Inquisitive
Stating a problem
Giving a surprising fact or statistics Using a striking quote
? Conclusion
Restating the Main Points
Referring back to the thesis and the introduction
Suggesting a solution further study or predicting an outcome Giving a humorous comment or unexpected twist Using a striking or Memorable Quote
Chapter 9 strategies for Development
? Definition
Sentence definition Extended definition Historical definition Stipulate definition
? Classification
Choosing the principle to classify Testing the effectiveness Explaining each subgroup
? Example
Relevant examples Specific examples Sufficient examples
? Comparison and contrast
Points for comparing and contrasting
Two ways for organizing comparison and contrast Transitional words and phrases
? Course and effect
Distinguishing between cause and Effect Necessity, sufficiently and mill’s methods Organizing cause and effect analysis
Transitional words and phrases for cause and effect analysis
? Generalization ? Visual elements
Chapter 10 Use of Sources and Documentation
? ? ? ?
Importance of Using and Documenting Sources Three Ways to Use Sources Styles of Documentation MLA Style
In-text Citation Explanatory notes List of works cited
? APA style
In-text citation Explanatory Notes
List of References or Bibliography
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