学术英语议论文阅读与写作

Contents Unit 1 Challenges in Higher Education.……………………………………1 Text A: Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's ……………………………………2 Text B:A Plea for "Close Learning"……………………………………………………………………9 Writing Focus: Planning an Argumentation ……………………………………………..16 Unit 2 Humanities—To Be or Not to Be, That Is the Question……21 Text A: Humanities-To Be or Not to Be, That ls the Question …22 Text B:Why a Humanities Degree lsn't Career Suicide…………………………………29 Writing Focus: Writing a Strong Thesis Statement.………………………….35 Unit 3 Psychology……………………………………………………………….39 Text A: What Children Lose When Their Brains Develop Too Fast ………………40 Text B: Content Moderators Pay a Psychological Toll to Keep Social Media Clean……………………………………………………………………………………48 Writing Focus: Grounds ……56 Unit 4 Post-Truth, Post-Fact Society? ..………………………………………59 Text A:Why Aren't People Listening to Scientists? ………………………………………60 Text B: Teaching Writing in a Post-Truth Era …………………………………………………67 Writing Focus: Warrant ………………………………………………………………………………………75 Unit 5 The Business of Survival……………………………………………………………79 Text A: Bringing Dignity to Workers: Make the Minimum Wage a Living Wage …………………………………………………………………………………80 Text B: For the Future, Look to the Past ……………………………………………………86 Writing Focus: Responding to Opposing Views ……………………………………93 Unit 6 Finance and Recession ……………………………………………………………………97 Text A: How I Survived an Unexpected Financial Emergency.98 Text B: America's Property Market Suggests Recession s on the Way………105 Writing Focus: Conduction.…………………………………………………………………114 Unit 7 New Tech, New Life…………………………………………………………………117 Text A: How ChatGPT Can Improve Education, Not Threaten lt .118 Text B: Are Autonomous Cars Really Safer than Human Drivers? ………………126 Writing Focus: Language Features of Academic Writing …132 Unit8 Science and Intelligence…………………………………………………139 Text A: To Fight Misinformation,We Need to Teach That Science Is Dynamic …140 Text B: Artificial Intelligence Needs Both Pragmatists and Blue-Sky Visionaries………………………………………………………………………………………148 Writing Focus: Citation and Reference ……………………………………………….155 References……………………………………………………………………159