一句英文敘述的表達(dá)有很多方式呈現(xiàn),不過對(duì)于專業(yè)性非常強(qiáng)的學(xué)術(shù)論文來說,任何的遣詞造句都要遵循一定的規(guī)則,有理有據(jù)的同時(shí)又要讀起來足夠“高大上”,有些作者也許會(huì)有這樣的問題“為什么期刊會(huì)拒絕我具有足夠創(chuàng)新的論文呢”?查爾斯沃思語(yǔ)言潤(rùn)色編輯認(rèn)為主要有兩點(diǎn)原因:
1、The paper was so poorly written and so poorly structured that the editor simply couldn’t fathom its meaning.
2、Editors are human beings: impressed by papers that are short, easy to read, and contain a clear message.
是的,用清晰的邏輯和結(jié)構(gòu)去撰寫你的論文,如何措辭?英文母語(yǔ)作者會(huì)如何表達(dá)呢?查爾斯沃思編輯推薦中國(guó)作者利用Academic Phrasebank網(wǎng)站(www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk)提供的豐富學(xué)術(shù)寫作短語(yǔ)及句型來學(xué)習(xí)撰寫學(xué)術(shù)論文。
Academic Phrasebank 你可以叫它“學(xué)術(shù)短語(yǔ)庫(kù)”,類似于我們直接向大家介紹過的《利用網(wǎng)絡(luò)語(yǔ)料庫(kù)減少科技論文語(yǔ)言錯(cuò)誤》
,該網(wǎng)站由曼徹斯特大學(xué)的John Morley博士創(chuàng)建,旨在為作者提供一些學(xué)術(shù)研究論文寫作上的常用句型或短語(yǔ)資源,幫助作者有效的組織語(yǔ)言及內(nèi)容,且該語(yǔ)言庫(kù)的內(nèi)容大多是中性和通用型的短語(yǔ)、例句,作者可放心使用不涉及竊取別人想法。
John Morley
該網(wǎng)站的幫助對(duì)象是英語(yǔ)為非母語(yǔ)地區(qū)的學(xué)術(shù)科研作者,即便如此,一些母語(yǔ)為英語(yǔ)的科研作者也會(huì)利用這個(gè)資源。根據(jù)該網(wǎng)站對(duì)外的數(shù)據(jù)統(tǒng)計(jì),大部分用戶是母語(yǔ)為英語(yǔ)的作者,當(dāng)然,這一數(shù)據(jù)可能也說明該資源網(wǎng)站沒有得到有效的推廣,許多母語(yǔ)非英語(yǔ)作者知道的比較少。
Academic Phrasebank網(wǎng)站由Introducing work、referring to sources、describing methods、discussing findings以及writing conclusions五個(gè)部分組成,每個(gè)版塊都有詳細(xì)的指導(dǎo)及例句,如在Introducing work菜單下,點(diǎn)擊“Establishing the importance of the topic for the discipline”超鏈接會(huì)列出在確定描述研究重要性的例句:
A key aspect of X is …
X is of interest because …
X is a classic problem in …
A primary concern of X is …
X is a dominant feature of …
X is an important aspect of …
X is a fundamental property of …
The concepts of X and Y are central to …
X is at the heart of our understanding of …
Investigating X is a continuing concern within …
X is a major area of interest within the field of …
X has been studied by many researchers using …
X has been an object of research since the 1960s.
X has been the subject of many classic studies in …
X has been instrumental in our understanding of …
The theory of X provides a useful account of how …
Central to the entire discipline of X is the concept of …
X is an increasingly important area in applied linguistics.
The issue of X has received considerable critical attention.
X has long been a question of great interest in a wide range of fields.
該網(wǎng)站的短語(yǔ)都來源于已發(fā)表的母語(yǔ)為英語(yǔ)的學(xué)術(shù)論文,它們最初由100篇曼徹斯特大學(xué)的碩士研究論文構(gòu)成,不過,隨著時(shí)間的推移,涉及更廣闊學(xué)科的論文資源正在被逐漸納入其中。
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