Academia Writing

Part 1 Introduction to Academic Writing

Part 2 The Title

Part 3 The Abstract

Part 4 The introduction

Part 5 The Materails and Mathods

Part 6 The results and dicision

Part 7 The conclusion

Part 8 Acknowledgements and references

 

 

a)  What is academic writings?

1 defination

Academic Writings include essays, published books, articles in jourals and research proposals.

A style of expression that researchers use to convey information and ideas in their areas of expertise.

Employed in...    Overall purpose...   Targeted at...  

2 characteristics

formal     objective      logical and impersonal       more difficult to understand      referencing and citations

3  structures

introduction   body    conclusion

formality   complexity    precision     accuracy

b) Efficient reading academic texts.

locate & extract relevant information

THREE- STEP STRATEGY

(1) before reading

①Think about your purpos e in reading the text.

②Look at  the title, headline, any subheadings, tables, figures or pictures.

③ Think about what you already know about the topic.

④ Write down what you would like to find out from the text. Specify questions to which you would like to find answers.

带着问题读，并找出问题答案。

⑤ Make a note of words and phrases related to the topic that you may find in the text.

标记主题中相关单词或者短语

(2) During Reading

① Scan the text: read the first and last paragraphs and the opening and closing sentences of the other paragraphs.

② Identify your purpose in reading

③  Write down one or two sentences about......

④ Read the text again but in a careful and intensive way, marking any new words that are important for your understanding.

⑤ important new words

⑥ Divide difficult sentence into segments.

(3) after reading

① make a list of the new words

② Evaluate what you have read

③ summarize the useful main points.

④ write down information & page numbers.