【2019-2020年整理】英语学术论文写作

• states what you want to say about the topic—your conclusion based on your research and thought • a strong thesis can usually be stated in a single sentence • the sentence that states your thesis may appear in your final paper
百度文库students’ English writing exercises?
analysis from data collected shows that spell checkers significantly improve students’ spelling but grammar checkers do not function the same way.
CLASS 1
PICKING AN A++ TOPIC
PART 1
WHAT IS A RESEARCH PAPER?
WHAT IS A RESEARCH PAPER?
•It is a paper that:
•presents an original approach to some academic topic, •organized around a central thesis, •using insights based on research, and •citing sources in a scholarly fashion.
RESEARCH PAPER WRITING
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REQUIREMENTS: PAPER RELATED
• Topic Selecting • Background Reading • Note Taking • Focus Statement • Outline • First Draft • Final Draft
WHY IS LEARNING TO WRITE A RESEARCH PAPER IMPORTANT?
• The ability to do research and use it intelligently in writing is a basic
tool of any educated person. • In today’s “knowledge economy”, more and more people are using research skills in their daily work. Understanding how to analyze, evaluate, criticize, combine, and draw conclusions from information sources is crucial to everyday decisions.
MORE EXAMPLES
• SUBJECT • William Faulkner (1897-1962 ) • TOPIC • The repetition of certain nouns in the sound and the fury • QUESTION • What is the function of repetition in the novel? • THESIS • The analysis shows that the repetition of certain nouns
MORE EXAMPLES
• SUBJECT • Second language acquisition • TOPIC • Learner error analysis • QUESTION • THESIS
• Statistical
• How did spell and grammar checkers change the error patterns in college
in the novel is expressive in that it gives emphasis or emotive heightening to the repeated meaning and theme, thus striking the reader as having some deliberate and unique artistic values in the novel and reinforce the theme of the novel with an artistic touch.
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PART 2
FROM SUBJECT TO TOPIC
FOUR KEY ELEMENTS
•SUBJECT •TOPIC •QUESTION •THESIS
FOUR KEY ELEMENTS
• SUBJECT • a very broad category—a general area of interest—usually assigned by your teacher • TOPIC
THE LENGTH OF A RESEARCH PAPER
• Scholarly magazines or journals • PhD thesis
• very short, 3-5 pages in length • hundreds of pages
•Required paper
• 10-15 pages, 20 pound space, 4000-5000 words
• QUESTION • the best topics are build around intriguing questions • THESIS
interestingly in just 10-15 pages?
• more specific focus within the general subject—developed by the student • —the narrower, the better • does your research paper describe a topic area that can be covered adequately and