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英语学术论文写作

Course Title: Effective Academic Writing in English: an Essential Guide

Course Numbers: 1800000106

Type of course: Major compulsory

Hours per week: 1

Credit: 1

Duration: 18 hours

Text and Materials:

Aimin cheng, Shouhua Qi, Effective Academic Writing in English：An Essential Guide, 2010,

Shanghai Foreign Education Press, ISBN: 9787810956819

Course description:

Academic Writing is one of the key courses for university students majoring in English in China. This course is designed to help students learn how to write a course paper and/or a BA thesis and to lay a foundation for writing more advanced academic papers in English for their future career. The course is an essential guide to effective academic writing in English, by that it does not to cover every single one of all the important issues that are related to academic writing. That would have been a much more ambitious project with a much more comprehensive approach than has been adopted by the book.

Course contents:

Part 1 General features of Academic Writing

Chapter 1 Academic Writing: An Introduction

Academic writing: A definition

Characteristics of Good Academic Writing

Good writing calls for critical reading and critical thinking

Good writing involves thoughtful revision

Good writing is directed toward an audience

Good writing achieves a clear purpose

Good writing expresses ideas clearly

Good writing pluses with creativity

Chapter 2 Kinds of Academic Writing

Writing to summarize

Writing to synthesize

Writing to explain

Writing to inform

Writing to explain processes

Writing to explain

Writing to Argue

The logical Appeal

The Emotional Appeal

The Ethical Appeal