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英文论文的编辑与修改 Highlights from Chapter 17 <<Writing Science>> by Joshua Schimel 1. Rarely will you find a single writing problem by itself. Rather, they come in a convoluted mix. Broken story arcs travel with weak linkages; prepositional phrases with passive verbs; jargon with nominalizations. There are no simple rules for fixing multiple problems because each piece […]

英文写作的凝练 Highlights from Chapter 16 <<Writing Science>> by Joshua Schimel 1.Good writing is tight and sleek, giving you what you need with just enough extra to create flow and highlight. Bloated writing is bad writing. By skipping the time to streamline your writing, you may feel that you are saving time, but in fact, you

英文写作的词语 Highlights from Chapter 15 <<Writing Science>> by Joshua Schimel 1.Words are to sentences what atoms are to molecules. They control the chemistry and “voice” of your writing — how it sounds and feels. Choosing words is not easy. English has amassed words from many sources, and different words convey different impressions of what you

充满活力的英文写作 Highlights from Chapter 14 <<Writing Science>> by Joshua Schimel 1.Good stories are driven by action.In science writing, the two C’s of SUCCES — credible and concrete — both emerge from showing. Within a sentence, showing action is the job of verbs and it’s an important job. Good writers use their verbs well, imbuing their

英文写作的信息流动 Highlights from Chapter 13 <<Writing Science>> by Joshua Schimel 1.There are two approaches to creating flow. The first is to write paragraphs where all the sentences are on the same team — dealing with a coherent theme and working together for a common goal. The second is to write sentences so the team forms

英文科技论文句子的写作 Highlights from Chapter 12 <<Writing Science>> by Joshua Schimel 1.You can’t write strong papers with weak sentences. To polish your writing, you need to go back to basics. That means sentences. A sentence has a subject, verb, and object. To transform a sentence into a story, you need to see those grammatical units as

科技文章的结构 Highlights from Chapter 10 in <<Writing Science>> by Joshua Schimel 1.Opening-Challenge-Action-Resolution (OCAR) defines the overall structure of a story. The opening grabs your attention with characters and a setting that you care about. The challenge creates uncertaintyand curiosity. The action feeds you information and develops the story. Finally, the resolution rewards your efforts and

科技论文的结尾 Highlights from Chapter 9 in <<Writing Science>> by Joshua Schimel 1.Ending well is the best revenge. Endings are power positions. People remember the last thing you say. The resolution should be your “take-home message,” your strongest and most memorable words. A good resolution shows us how our understanding of nature has advanced, and by

科技写作中的“动作” Highlights from Chapter 8 in <<Writing Science>> by Joshua Schimel 1.Action makes up the main body of the story and includes everything between the challenge and the resolution. In a paper, this includes the Materials and Methods, the Results, and most of the Discussion. In writing the action, the critical message is to remember

如何撰写科学问题的挑战 Highlights from Chapter 7 in <<Writing Science>> by Joshua Schimel 1.In the challenge, you describe the specific knowledge you hope to gain. This starts with the question that drove you to do the research. You did the work to discover the answer. From the question, we sometimes formulate a hypothesis and we usually state