Грамматика для написания научных статей

Accurately use the terminology of your discipline.

4. Ensure that your language is rich enough.

5. Write in an academic style, avoid colloquial language, jargon, and slang.

6. Arrange your ideas in a strict logical order.

7. Pay special attention to the introduction of your text.

8. Incorporate visual support (tables, diagrams, graphs) for your ideas.

9. Cite leading papers in your field.

10. Think about the general presentation (chapters, sub-chapters, paragraphs, etc.

) of your text.

11. Pay special attention to the conclusion of your text.

Task 10. Here is a list of ten features characteristic of academic writing, five of them are relatively prominent in Anglo-American research texts. Try to find these features in the list.

1. Impersonal style of writing (i.e., without using the personal pronouns "I" or "we").

2. Intensive use of logical connectors (words like "therefore" or "however").

3. Heavy load of terminology and specialized jargon.

4. High degree of formal text structuring (i.e., division of the text into sections and subsections with appropriate headings).

5. Tendency to cite and to include into the lists of references the most recent publications in the field.

6. Frequent occurrence of the phrases which provide reference to the text itself (e.g., "This paper discusses …").

7. Use of long sentences with complicated grammar.

8. Strong emphasis on generalizations and highly theoretical issues.

9. Frequent use of footnotes and long remarks in parentheses.

10. Tendency to follow a certain pattern of textual organization (e.g., problem-solution).

Home assignment:

Academic Vocabulary in Use Unit 1.

Lesson 2. Noun

There are many more nouns than any other part of speech. Since nouns are numerous types in English, you are constantly having to make decisions. For example, you may have to decide if a noun requires a capital letter or not.

You may also have to decide if a noun should be in the plural form, and if so, how to form the plural. Most important, in English, you will have to decide if a noun can be counted or not. This distinction can affect of the grammar of a sentence, including which quantity words can occur with a noun.

A. Nouns can be classified as follows:

B. Proper Nouns and Capitalization

1.