英语科技论文写作中关键字的选择

Principle of Choosing Keywords
---Try to avoid: Some words without material meaning Such as: articles (a/an, the), prepositions (at, in, on, to, above, over, under, below…), conjunctions (and, as well, but, while, yet…), pronouns (I, me, mine, myself, who, this…), adverbs, adjectives, interjections, some verbs (link verbs, modal verbs, auxiliary verb ) Terms that are not commonly used Your own creation
Example
Title: Region-specific neuronal degeneration after okadaic acid administration
as an abbreviation
Poor keywords: neuron, brain, OA, regional-specific neuronal degeneration, signaling too general Better keywords: okadaic acid, hippocampus, neuronal degeneration, MAP kinase signaling
Such as: research, study, analyze, report, regulation, approach, theory, concept, idea, experimentation, phenomena …
e.g. kinetic stቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱdy → kinetics thermal decomposition mechanism → thermal decomposition chemical reaction kinetics → chemical reaction, kinetics
The keywords of a paper usually come from the title and/or the abstract, specially repeated in title or abstract.
Bayesian analysis of growth curves using mixed models defined by stochastic differential equations
from title
Example
Title: Health care quality management by means of an incident report system and an electronic patient record system
Poor Keywords：health care, EMR, Incident report,
The keywords must be the content words which is specific to the paper.
Principle of Choosing Keywords
---Try to avoid:
无特殊检索意义、不能表征文稿所属学科专用概念的词不能 独立作关键词使用。
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What is Keywords General Functions Linguistic Feature Principle of Choosing Keywords
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What is Keywords？ ？
As the name implies, keywords are the most important words and phases representative of the theme of the paper, and frequently used in a paper. Reader can find out the theme of the paper by looking at the keywords.
Linguistic Feature
1. Nominalization
—In form of noun, not verb
2. Spacing the Keywords
— First letter capitalized andadd Text following not • Click to add Text • Click to add Text • Click to — Comma (,) or semicolonto addbetween words• Click to add Text • lick to add Text • Click (;) Text — LargerText • Click to add space between keywords • Click to add Text • Click to add Text — No full stop (.) after the last keywords
3. Adopting Well-known Abbreviation
e.g. IBM — the name of company — interactive boson model(相互作用玻色子模型)
Linguistic Feature
4. Limited number
—Average 4 or 6 key words — At least 2, at most 8
General Functions
(1) Easiness of Retrieval —Represent the theme or subject matter of the paper —Facilitate the information retrieval (2) Easiness of Highlighting —Stress / Emphasize the gist of the paper
quality management
Better Keywords: Quality management; Incident report;
Electronic patient records; Structured data
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5. Writing Requirement
—Though keywords can be either above or below the abstract of a paper, they are yet, in most cases, placed below the abstract.
Principle of Choosing Keywords