学科英语写作教程:化学

Chapter 1 Building Your Own Corpus 1

1.1 What Is a Corpus? 2

1.2 How to Build a Chemistry-specific Corpus 2

1.3 What You Can Do with Your Own Corpus 4

1.4 How to Create a Chemistry-specific Word List 5

Chapter 2 Introduction 7

Corpus in Use 7

Lead-in Questions 9

2.1 A Story to Justify the Research 10

2.2 Big Issue vs. Research Question 11

2.3 Telling the Story 12

2.4 Writing the Opening 14

2.5 Writing the Funnel 16

2.6 Writing the Aim 19

Functional Expressions and Sentences 23

Assignments 35

Chapter 3 Methods 37

Corpus in Use 37

Lead-in Questions 38

3.1 Purpose, Tense, and Voice 39

3.2 Using Passive Voice in Methods 41

3.3 Dealing with Experimental Details 41

Functional Expressions and Sentences 44

Assignments 52

Chapter 4 Results 53

Corpus in Use 53

Lead-in Questions 54

4.1 Visual Illustrations 56

4.2 Tables vs. Figures 57

4.3 Presenting Results 59

4.4 Subordinating Table and Figure Legends 61

4.5 Subordinating Methods 62

Functional Expressions and Sentences 64

Assignments 69

Chapter 5 Discussion 71

Corpus in Use 71

Lead-in Questions 72

5.1 Developing a Model 73

5.2 Answering the Research Question 74

5.3 Supporting the Answer with Results 76

5.4 Relating Results to Previous Research 77

5.5 Ending Discussion 79

Functional Expressions and Sentences 82

Assignments 86

References 87

Appendixes 89

Appendix I Keys to Exercises 89

Appendix II Common Affixes in Chemistry 102

Appendix III Common Chemical Abbreviations and Acronyms 107

Appendix IV Model Research Article 118