英语论文写作

外国语学院教案

班级：20080311-6

教师：王进军

课程：英语科研方法与论文写作2010-2011学年第2学期

School of Foreign Languages 外国语学院

Teaching Plan教案

Chapter 8

Chapter 8 Front matter and back matter (continued)

● Teaching objectives

Focus on

How to design the cover of your paper?

How to produce the prospectus of your paper?

How to document the outline page and the abstract page?

How to give your paper a title?

How to express your acknowledgement to those who help you with your research?

How to make notes?

How to add an appendix to your paper?

How to document all the materials of the final draft of your paper?

How to prepare yourself for the oral defense of your paper?

● Teaching aids

PPT, Video, testing sheets

● Teaching procedures

After finishing the final draft of your paper, you are supposed to do or provide with several additional things, including acknowledgement, notation, appendixes, the final bibliography or references, the final typescript, and the verbal defense for your paper.

Step One: acknowledgement

If you get some support from somebody or some organization in your carrying out your project or if you accept some help from somebody in your research and writhing your paper, you should express your thanks to the organizat6ion or the person.

The thanks are usually given to:

(1)the sponsor who gives a certain amount of financial assistance to your project

(2)the instructor who gives you in your project or research and writing the paper

(3)the teacher(s) and your classmates who once gave you suggestions or advice on your

project or research

(4)the person(s) who aided you to collect data or proof-read your drafts

(5)family members or friends who gave you either physical or/and mental support

(6)those who kindly allowed you to use their computers or other research apparatuses and

materials.

e.g.

I would like to thank XXX and XXX for their guidance and help.

I gratefully acknowledge the financial support of/from the XXX Foundation.

I am most grateful to XXX, without whose sound advice and patient revision, this thesis would never have taken the present shape.

My special thanks should go to XXX, whose enlightening lectures about XXX initiated me into the study of XXX.

Moreover, I would like to thank all my teachers in the Department of Foreign Languages of XXX, for I have benefited a lot from their excellent scholarships and exemplary characters in the past four years.

Finally, thanks should also go to some of my classmates for their XXXX, and all the students in XXX who have served as subjects in my research for their collaboration, patience, and earnestness in the participation of this experiment.

Step Two: notation

There are five styles to document your notes: MLA parenthetical style, MLA endnote style, MLA footnote style, MLA numbered bibliography style, and APA style.

1.parenthetical notes: also called interlinear note, follow a smple format. Place the notes

immediately after the quoted material or at the end of the paraphrased material, and enclose the notes in parentheses. If the material you cite comes from only one work by an author, you will enclose in a parenthetical note only the author‟s or editor‟s name(s) and the page of the reference, with or without colon between:

…the novel “has the quality of a social document”. (Chen Jia: 437)

Some instructors perhaps require that you enclose the date or year in which the work was published besides the above information. Then, you should follow this example, especially when you cite more than two works written by the same author or when the same work has several editions.

Instead, “she is surrounded by …a cloud of moral hobgoblins‟ which she no longer fears, and shuns the daylight of social convention” (Hardy, 1996: 32).

If a note refers to material for which no author is credited, you can use its title, or a shorteded version of the title, in quotation amrks for articles and pamphlets or in italics for books, and the page number(s):

Adam and Eve once lived in Eden, a beautiful place in heavens. They both are the fruit of the tree of knowledge, which turned against God[…s will. Eventually they both were forced to leave Eden as a punishment for their “degeneration”. Since then, Eden became declined and weary because nobody took care of it (The Holy Bible: 3).

When the author‟s name has been mentioned in the text, you only need to give the page number(s) in the parentheses:

Chang Yaoxin (198) points out:”Readers tent to find wit and wisdom, peace and harmony, serenity and joy from his poetry”.