《高等学校专门用途英语(ESP)系列教材:学术英语(理工)》属“学术提升”类教材,适合修完大学英语基础课程的本科生或研究生使用,旨在培养学生有效、得体地使用英语进行理工学科专业的学业学习与进行口头和书面形式的学术交流的能力。《高等学校专门用途英语(ESP)系列教材:学术英语(理工)》特点如下:“跨学科”的概念,突出共性,淡化专业,丰富学生理工背景下的学术共核知识;输入与输出紧密结合,语言技能与专业知识兼顾,提高学生的学术综合能力;选材观点丰富、来源不同,既开阔学生视野,又培养批判与创新思维能力;突破常规教学模式,基于项目研究步骤编写,培养团队合作和探究精神。《高等学校专门用途英语(ESP)系列教材:学术英语(理工)》由蔡基刚主编。

Unit 1 Choosing a Topic
1 Deciding on a topic
Text l How Do Computer Hackers "Get Inside"a Computer?
Text 2 Electronic Threats of a Computer
2 Formulating a research question
Text 3 Advantages ofCloud Computing
Text 4 Security Benefits of Cloud Computing
3 Writing a working title
4 Enhancingyour acadenuclanguage
Reading: Texts
Listening: Lectures
Unit 2 Searching for Information
1 Finding reliable and better sources
2 Scanningandskimming
Text 5 Can You Compete with A.l. for the Next Job?
3 Identifying topic sentences forinformation
Text 6 Game Theory
4 Guessingwordmeaning
From context
Text 7 Darkness on the Edqe of the Universe
Through affixes and roots
Text 8 How NanotechnologyWorks
5 Using the orgtuuzation ofthe text
Text 9 GlobaIWarminq and Its Efects
6 Reading critically
Text 10 GlobaIWarming
7 Takingnotes
8 Writing a summary
9 Enhancing your acadenuclanguage
Reading:Texts
Listening: Lectures
Unit 3 Listening to Lectures
1 Preparing forlistening to alecture
2 Paying attention to theintroduction
Lecture
3 Understanding theideas through examples
Lecture
4 Following alecture through signalwords
Lecture
5 Memorizing the points by taking notes
Lecture
Unit 4 Writing a Literature Review
1 Writing aliterature review
Text 11 Risks of Nuclear Power
Text 12 How Radiation Threatens Health
Text 13 Should Nuclear Radiation Found in Domestic Milk Come as a Surprise?
Text 14 Radiation and Health:The Aftershocks of Japan's Nuclear Disaster
2 Writing a self-containedliterature review
3 Writing aliterature review as a part ofan essay
4 Citation
5 Documentation
6 Avoidingplagiarism
7 Paraphrasing
8 Enhancing your academiclanguage
Reading:Texts
Listening: Lectures
Unit 5 Writing an Academic Essay
1 Definition
Text 15 Genetically Modified Foods-Feed the World?
Text 16 Influence of Genetically Modified Soya on the Birth Weight and -
Survival of Rat Pups
Text 17 Clinical Risk Assessment of GM Foods
2 Two types ofresearch paper
3 Writinganintroduction
4 Wriiting the body ofa secondary research essay
Defin'ition
Text 18 Physical Effects of Marijuana Use
Organizations
5 Writing the body of a primary research essay
Methods section
Results section
6 Writing a discussion or/and conclusion
7 Writing an abstract
8 Writing a reference list
9 Academic writing style
Formality
Text 19 Research Reports for Business and Technical Writing
Hedging
10 Proofreading
Check globally
Check grammatically
11 Enhancing your academic language
Reading:Texts 15-19
Listening: Lectures 17-20
Unit 6 Making an Oral Presentation
1 Preparing your oral presentation
2 Organizing the content
3 Using proper language
4 Delivering your presentation
5 Using visual aids
6 Dealing with Q and A
7 Raising questions in class and in the lecture
8 Participating in discussions
Appendix 1: Vocabulary
Appendix 2: A Student's Paper