学术写作一

最近要写分布式并行计算的作业，由于自己在本科的时候，并没有使用过国外的查重系统，所以对

英文学术写作是很了解。因此，本系列主要是学习coursera《面向论文写作的研究导论》

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Choosing a Topic

 

The goal of first week learning:

• describe some characteristics of research paper
• describle some differences among various research assignments
• narrow an assigned topic by creating a research question                  

 

 

Choosing a Research Paper

 

• expore a complex issues
• has considerable length
• uses sources 

 

The research Assigment would be differed by department/ field of study

Differ by teacher, like:

• synthesize aiticles that I read
• come up my ideas

 

 

MLA formating

topic:

media coverage of wars

research questions:

Are violent images appropriate for publications?

 

 

 

topic:

crime in the U.S

research question:

Are 3-strikes laws effective in reducing crime?

 

search terms should be narrowed:

 

search-terms:

 

3-strikes laws,

effects of 3 strikes laws,

3-strikes reducing crime, 

3-strikes crime reduction

 

Sample Research 

The guidance to write a research paper should folllow as the link:

http://www.jimpryor.net/teaching/guidelines/writing.html

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Finding and Evaluating Academic Sources 

 

以车祸举例，

primary: 当事人

secondary: newspaper写了这个报道，这这个报道就是secondary source

scholarly: 行业专家写的文章

popular:  不能用

book or other print source

electronic source

不要用以下sources

 

Google.com

Yahoo.com

Reddit.com

wikipedia.org

blogs

social media

People Magazine

US magazine

The national

Enquirer

TMZ

 

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