EAWC | Listening, note-taking and summary

Listening and note-takingTips for note-taking:Don't take notes just for taking notes. Take it in an valuable and worthy way.Concentrate on important words (usually nouns, verbs, etc.) that give important information to you.Omit unimportant words.Have a consistent system for punctuation and abbreviation that will make sense to you. (It's unnecessary to make sense for others)Make the best of abbreviations, symbols and shapes.Summary writingGist: the main or essential part Summary: a comprehensive

English for academic writing and communication · 2024-11-22

EAWC | Seminar discussion and presentation

Discussion skillsEffective discussion should be:Be an attentive audienceA discussion should have a conclusion (decisions), otherwise it is an ineffective discussionTips for participating a discussion:For freshmen:ask a question so that the speaker can clarify or elaborate on a point that you don't understandask cause-and-effectFor junior students:explain that you find the speaker's opinions or points interesting and describe whybased on what the speaker had said and extend his opinion / pointspa

English for academic writing and communication · 2024-11-15

EAWC | Results, discussion, conclusion & poster presentation

Final part of paper writingSection of resultsIn this section, specific data of the work and detailed analysis of the data should be fully presented.Three moves to write results part:Provide preparatory informationDescribe the data in figures and tablesReport the results based on the dataWriting requirements for results:any data given in this section must be meaningfulpresentation of the data should be short without verbiage and be crystal claritythis section should also be well-written and shoul

English for academic writing and communication · 2024-11-08

EAWC | Introduction, methods & editing

How to write a good introductionImportancemost read partdetermine the attitude of readerthe most dedicate partThe earlier you write the introduction part, the more you have to polish in the end. It's greatly suggested writing the introduction part after you finish the main body or at least the draft of your whole paper.Writing grammarTensePresent Simple/Present Continuous: this pair is used to state accepted facts and truths.Past Simple/Present Perfect: this pair is used to discuss the knowledge

English for academic writing and communication · 2024-11-01

EAWC | Paper publication process

Paper publication issuesCategories of papers:General articleTheoretical articleTechnical articleReport of significant achievementsOther kinds of articlesClassification of journals:JournalRapid communication / lettersReviewProceedingsOther technical documents: standard, patent, etc.Procedures of paper submission:In advance: Choose target journalsnecessary selection: read few published papers in this journal, it's better done before writing your paperone paper can only be submitted to one journal

English for academic writing and communication · 2024-10-25

EAWC | Acknowledgement, citation, paraphrasing and summary writing

Acknowledgement writingAcknowledgement is the last section of the body. It is set to express the author appreciation. This part is quite emotional and subjective.Components for acknowledgement: most important teachers, financial aids, financial support from foundation, research group (grant, fellowship, scholarship), other helps, friends, colleagues, families (but no boyfriend/girlfriend)Linguistic features of acknowledgement: being brief, polite, specific, first person, active voice, titles and

English for academic writing and communication · 2024-10-25

EAWC | How to be a scholar - the basic

Critical thinkingbuild your own academic vocabulary for academic writing.Try to be a reviewer. RAS: reliable, acceptable (authority), sufficiencyCultivate your ability of critical thinking at anytime.How to write a literature reviewdescribe the procedures accurately and assure their replicability, making other researchers able to repeat your experimentsHow to read research papersPreparationbe acquainted with the fieldsbe criticalget newest research papers through different ways (google scholar,

English for academic writing and communication · 2024-09-20