学术英语. 理工

Unit 1 Choosing a Topic

1 Deciding on a topic

Text l How Do Computer Hackers "Get Inside"a Computer?

Text 2 Electronic Threats of a Computer

2 Formulating a research question

Text 3 Advantages ofCloud Computing

Text 4 Security Benefits of Cloud Computing

3 Writing a working title

4 Enhancingyour acadenuclanguage

Reading: Texts

Listening: Lectures

Unit 2 Searching for Information

1 Finding reliable and better sources

2 Scanningandskimming

Text 5 Can You Compete with A.l. for the Next Job?

3 Identifying topic sentences forinformation

Text 6 Game Theory

4 Guessingwordmeaning

From context

Text 7 Darkness on the Edqe of the Universe

Through affixes and roots

Text 8 How NanotechnologyWorks

5 Using the orgtuuzation ofthe text

Text 9 GlobaIWarminq and Its Efects

6 Reading critically

Text 10 GlobaIWarming

7 Takingnotes

8 Writing a summary

9 Enhancing your acadenuclanguage

Reading:Texts

Listening: Lectures

Unit 3 Listening to Lectures

1 Preparing forlistening to alecture

2 Paying attention to theintroduction

Lecture

3 Understanding theideas through examples

Lecture

4 Following alecture through signalwords

Lecture

5 Memorizing the points by taking notes

Lecture

Unit 4 Writing a Literature Review

1 Writing aliterature review

Text 11 Risks of Nuclear Power

Text 12 How Radiation Threatens Health

Text 13 Should Nuclear Radiation Found in Domestic Milk Come as a Surprise?

Text 14 Radiation and Health:The Aftershocks of Japan's Nuclear Disaster

2 Writing a self-containedliterature review

3 Writing aliterature review as a part ofan essay

4 Citation

5 Documentation

6 Avoidingplagiarism

7 Paraphrasing

8 Enhancing your academiclanguage

Reading:Texts

Listening: Lectures

Unit 5 Writing an Academic Essay

1 Definition

Text 15 Genetically Modified Foods-Feed the World?

Text 16 Influence of Genetically Modified Soya on the Birth Weight and -

Survival of Rat Pups

Text 17 Clinical Risk Assessment of GM Foods

2 Two types ofresearch paper

3 Writinganintroduction

4 Wriiting the body ofa secondary research essay

Defin'ition

Text 18 Physical Effects of Marijuana Use

Organizations

5 Writing the body of a primary research essay

Methods section

Results section

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Unit 6 Making an Oral Presentation

Appendix 1: Vocabulary

Appendix 2: A Student's Paper

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