《学术论文写作手册》系统地介绍了写作研究论文的基本要求、格式规范和方法技巧,从如何有效选题开始,介绍了如何应用图书馆查询、收集和整理资料,如何确定论题和写作大纲,如何有效地在写作过程中使用计算机和互联网络,如何找寻相关的研究信息资料,如何将记录的卡片和笔记写成论文初稿,到如何修改初稿,如何合理引用文献和避免剽窃,如何引用参考文献等。该书还介绍了三种研究论文的体例格式,并列举了研究论文的样本。

When Writing the Research Paper: A Handbook was first published twenty-eight years ago, the first shot had not been fired in the computer revolution,and all researchers were still yoked to the typewriter where the slightest mistake in a line had to be paid for in the drudgery of retyping an entire page. Computers had not become as plentiful as toasters, and the Internet was no more than one or two sparse bulletin boards as primitive as the old-fashioned telegraph. Online sources were unknown, and the idea of communicating with the use of color graphics in a research paper was nothing more than a dream.
北京大学出版社2008年*新引进了一套国外畅销的《英语写作原版影印系列丛书》,并邀请我为这套丛书写序,谈谈我对英语写作教学与研究的一些认识。我仔细翻阅后,觉得这套书特色十分鲜明,其中有几本再版达十次以上,经久不衰,非常乐意在此**给我国的广大读者。
在经济全球化和网络高度发达的今天,学好英语已变得十分重要,英语口头与书面语的表达能力已逐渐成为当今的核心竞争力之一,从第二语言学习的社会文化观看,能否流利地运用外语进行口头或书面交流已直接关系到学生的就业和未来发展。中国的英语写作教学有许多问题需要深入探讨,引进国外**的英语写作教学与研究成果,对于更新我国的英语写作教学观念和方法,改革当前的英语写作教学具有重要意义。
一、国内外二语写作研究概览
第二语言写作的教学与研究在国际上一直受到重视,国外的写作教学研究十分活跃,以美国为例,美国普度( PURDUE)大学每年定期召开二语写作学术研讨会,2008年6月6--7日召开的第7届写作年会的主题是:外语写作教学:原理与实践。二语写作拥有自己的研究队伍、研究机构、学术期刊。概括起来,国际二语写作研究集中在四个领域。

Preface
1 Basic Information about the Research Paper
1a Fear of the research paper
1b Definition of the research paper
1c Format of the research paper
1d Reasons for the research paper
1e The report paper and the thesis paper
1f Drafts of the research paper
1g Writing the research paper:Steps and schedule
2 Choosing a Topic
2a How to choose a topic
2b Topics to avoid
2b-1 Topics that are too big
2b-2 Topics based on a single source
2b-3 Topics that are too technical
2b-4 Topics that are trivial
2b-5 Topics that are overused
2b-6 Topics that are contemporary
2c Narrowing the topic
3 The Library
3a-1 The computer
3a-2 Online full-text databases
3a-3 Microform indexes
3a-4 Stacks
3a-5 Reference room or shelt
3a-6 Main desk
3a-7 Reserve desk
3a-8 Audiovisual room
3a-9 Microform room
3a-10 Newspaper racks
3a-11 Computer room
3a-12 Carrels
3b Organization of the library collections
3b-1 The Dewey Decimal System
3b-2 The Cutter-Sanborn Author Marks
3b-3 The Library of Congress Classification system
3b-4 Classification of periodicals
3b-5 Classification of nonbooks
4 The Thesis and the Outline
4a The thesis:Definition and function
4a-1 Formulating the thesis
4a-2 Rules for wording the thesis
4a-3 Placing the thesis
4a-4 Choosing a title
4b The outline
4b-1 Visual conventions of the outline
4b-2 Equal ranking in outline entries
4b-3 Parallelism in outline entries
4b-4 Types of outlines
a. The topic outline
b. The sentence outline
c. The paragraph outline
d. Decimal outline notation
5 Using the Computer in Your Research
6 Doing the Research
7 Transforming the Notes into a Rough Draft
8 Revising Your Rough Draft
9 The MLA System of Dovumentation
10 The APA System of Dovumentaion
11 The Traditional Sstem of Dovumentation
12 Sample Student Papers
APPENDICES

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