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學術英語文章寫作注意要點

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學術英語文章寫作注意要點

  1、避免使用反問句、設問句。特別是作者也沒有答案的問題。

例如: What’s the objective of the information? Is it to makepeople more confused and astray? I partly agree with theauthor’s contention that the enormous and otiose informationsometimes render people lose their way and fail to considerquestion penetratingly and originally.

作文的開頭就扔出兩個問題,然後接下來的陳述卻與問題基本毫無干系。作為讀者,首先要考慮那兩個問題的答案到底是什麼,然後才能往下讀。這些在中文裡可能會被評作“引人入勝”的好詞好句,在英語的論文寫作裡面,可以說是最大的敗筆之一。如果你一定要問問題的話,那就改成陳述句式,例如:Whetherthis issue is right or wrong? 可以改成:It has been a controversial issue that.....

  2、避免集中使用"Be"動詞,包括is, are, has been, have been, etc.

即使GRE考題statement裡面有很多"Be"動詞,你也要避免照抄,因為statement是淺顯地告訴你一個idea,而不是向你展示writing。

例如:What is the purpose of education? Some people may say that the purpose of educationshould be to create a totally academic environment that separates from the outside world, for,they think, this situation allows students to focus on their academic research work without beingdisturbed by practical concerns. In fact, this suggestion is harmful to the scientific research work.

這是某一篇文章的開頭。我們現在只是分析語法問題。作者除了要注意不要使用疑問句以外,還有很重要的一點:總共兩三句話,出現4個"Be"動詞。這種寫法,在英語裡面被稱作"non-act"的'動詞。"Be" 僅僅表示一種狀態,例如:"i am here", "you are there". 對於母語者來說,"Be"動詞其實就是寫在紙上,而沒有任何感情色彩。所以應該儘量避免成篇累牘地使用。我們的例子可以改為:

Some people argue that the purpose of education lies in its strength in creating a totally academicenvironment separated from the outside world. They think this situation allows students to focuson academic research by excluding outside disturbance from practical concerns. However, thissuggestion in fact does harm to the scientific research work.

我們可以看到,使用了lie in, exclude, do harm to以後,句子更有色彩了。

  3、儘量避免重複使用單詞或者片語。特別是近距離集中在某一兩句話裡使用。

例如:The author argues that to understand one’s own culture, one must know about at leastone another culture which is distinctly different from one’s own culture. While as I am concerned, Ican’t agree with the author’s assertion.

這一個開頭,總共兩行字,卻連續出現了4個One,3個culture。如果你把這段話大聲朗讀一下,就會覺得彆扭、好笑了。連續使用相同的單詞或者片語(包括短句),體現的是作者詞彙量匱乏,寫作風格較差,遣詞造句能力不強。給讀者的感覺就是昏昏欲睡。

很容易的我們就可以改正:The author argues that the knowledge of another distinctly differentculture helps us to truly understand our own. However, I disagree with this assertion.

這句話把原來的三句分句合成了並無冗長感覺的一句。精簡的同時,也恰當地避免了重複多次使用culture,one的問題。用了"this assertion",也避免了在近距離使用兩個"author"。

  4、避免使用從句套從句的超長句子。

學術性的文章,應當避免追求華麗詞藻和句型。作為非母語者,我們在語感上面已經處於劣勢。為了避免缺乏語感而造成的很多語法上面、句子結構上面的小失誤,我們更應該儘量避免使用長句。看了很多作者的文章,長句造成的後果通常有:單複數混淆,it、that指代不清,從句兩頭時態不符,連線介詞錯誤,等等。

例如:Things happened in the past, known as history, is great treasure for us huan beings,through and only through studying the past can we gain valuable experience which serves as ameans of guiding our development of the society.

例子中作者用了3處逗號,而事實上面,從句間關係並非密不可分。我們可以很輕鬆的分成三句話,作者寫得安心,讀者讀得舒心,做到真正的言必達意。

History consists of the things happened in the past and it is a great treasure to human ugh and only through studying the past thoroughly can we gain valuable experience fromhistory. The historical experience serves as a means of guidance for the new development in thesociety.

  5、避免陳詞濫調等廢話

例如:For getting a satisfying score, students have to prepare for and review their textsfrequently, remember all the knowledge they have learned deep in mind, enlarge their learning if itis possible and so on, especially when examinations are coming. All these efforts, no matter whattheir aims are, will surely lead to a corresponding paying back.

段中的這一句"no matter what their aims are",在整個上下文表達上面沒有任何實質性的意 義,完完全全是句廢話。