- •Государственное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования «Сибирский государственный аэрокосмический университет
- •Preface
- •Credits
- •Table of contents
- •Unit 1 what is science?
- •Part 1: principles of effective reading
- •Skimming: for getting the gist of something
- •Detailed reading: for extracting information accurately
- •Text a the discovery of X-rays
- •Text b call for tolerance towards some 'stem cell tourism'
- •Text c general guidelines
- •Part 2: oral or written?
- •Group 1
- •The academic audience
- •Levels of formality
- •The range of formality Technical → Formal → Informal → Colloquial
- •Part 3: what is science?
- •What is science?
- •Part 4: technology: pros & cons
- •Part 5:listening for academic purposes
- •The Computer Jungle
- •Unit 2 science to life: between the lines
- •Part 1: how effectively can you read?
- •Reading skills for academic study
- •Using the title
- •Part 2: paragraph development and topic sentences
- •Text a Science and Technology
- •Text c Research: Fundamental and Applied, and the Public
- •Part 3: scientists' brain drain Task 16. You are going to read a magazine article (Text a). Choose the most suitable heading from the list (1 – 9) for each part (a – j) of an article
- •Text a highlights of the north
- •Text b bio tech brain drain: are too many talented scientists leaving the southeast?
- •Part 4 reading skills for success
- •Reading skills for success: a guide to academic texts
- •Collocations
- •Part 5: listening for academic purposes
- •Going Digital: The Future of College Textbooks?
- •Part 6: grammar review sentence structure
- •1. Simple sentence:
- •2. Compound sentence:
- •3. Complex sentence:
- •Unit 3 order of importance
- •Part 1 academic vocabulary
- •C a social occasion to which people are invited in order to eat, drink and enjoy themselves
- •A a way of dealing with a problem, an answer
- •Part 2 Coherence
- •The importance of stupidity in scientific research
- •Consumerism is 'eating the future'
- •Now fly me to the asteroids as well
- •Cohesion: Using Repetition and Reference Words to Emphasize Key Ideas in Your Writing
- •Repetition of Key Words
- •Rotation may solve cosmic mystery
- •Part 3 writing & speaking fundamentals
- •Article 1 shapefile technical description
- •Article 2
- •Article 3
- •Article 4 disposable containers for a disposable society
- •Article 5 knowledge, theory, and classification
- •The table of the useful vocabulary
- •Part 4: listening for academic purposes
- •Part 5:grammar review (punctuation)
- •Unit 4 matter of perspectives
- •Part 1 mistakes and negligence
- •Text a mistakes and negligence
- •(1) Changing Knowledge
- •(2) Discovering an Error
- •Part 2 Comparison and Contrast
- •Part 3 listening for academic purposes
- •Recognising lecture structure
- •1. Introducing
- •Unit 5 research misconduct
- •A Breach of Trust
- •Task 4. Study the second case.
- •Treatment of Misconduct by a Journal
- •Part 2 reading skills for academic study: note-taking
- •How to take notes
- •Part 3 preparing an abstract
- •Abstract 1 The hydrodynamics of dolphin drafting
- •Abstract 2 Recomputing Coverage Information to Assist Regression Testing
- •Abstract 3 Methods for determining best multispectral bands using hyper spectral data
- •Abstracts and introductions compared
- •Introduction
- •Introduction
- •Text a The Biosphere: Its Definition, Evolution and Possible Future
- •Introduction
- •Text b The Environment: Problems and Solution
- •Text d The Biosphere: Natural, Man-Disturbed and Man-Initiated Cycles
- •Part 4 listening for academic purposes Giving background information
- •Showing importance/Emphasising
- •Unit 6 finding meaning in literature
- •The Selection of Data
- •Lexical & grammar review
- •Part 2 avoiding plagiarism
- •3. Plagiarism!
- •4. Plagiarism is bad!!
- •5. The importance of recognizing the plagiarism
- •Is It Plagiarism?
- •Part 3 evaluating sources
- •Sample mla Annotation
- •Sample apa Annotation
- •Task 22. Analyse an extract of the following annotated bibliography. Define its format.
- •Ethics in the physical sciences course outline and reference books
- •Philosophy
- •The life of a scientist
- •Ethics for scientists
- •A few cautionary notes on saving Web materials
- •Unit 7 writing & publishing Objectives
- •Part 1 sharing of research results
- •The Race to Publish
- •Part 2 how to read an academic article
- •Article 1
- •50 Million chemicals and counting
- •Article 2 sun is setting on incandescent era
- •How to read a scientific article
- •Part 3 how to write an academic article
- •Publication Practices
- •Restrictions on Peer Review and the Flow of Scientific Information
- •Guidelines for Writing a Scientific Article
- •Part 4 listening for academic purposes
ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОЕ АГЕНТСТВО ПО ОБРАЗОВАНИЮ
Государственное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования «Сибирский государственный аэрокосмический университет
имени академика М. Ф. Решетнева»
(СибГАУ)
Гуманитарный факультет
ENGLISH FOR
EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL
COMMUNICATION
Красноярск 2009
УДК 802.0(075.8)
Рецензенты
Е.Н. Белова – доцент кафедра иностранных языков КГПУ им. В.П. Астафьева, канд. филол. наук
Ж.Н. Шмелева – заведующий кафедрой делового иностранного языка КГАУ, канд.филос. наук, доцент
English for Effective Professional Communication: учебное пособ./ сост. O.В. Маслова, M.В. Савельева, T.В. Стрекалева, A.Н. Ткачук, Е.В. Фибих. Сиб. гос. аэрокосмич. ун-т. – Красноярск, 2009. - 262 с.
© Сибирский государственный аэрокосмический
университет имени академика М.Ф. Решетнева, 2009
O. Maslova, M. Savelyeva, T. Strekaleva, A. Tkachuk, K. Fibikh
ESP 1
Preface
This coursebook is intended for EFL students in tertiary education, taking their Master degree training or a post-graduate course. The students, who will use the coursebook for their studies, should know English at the intermediate level and do their own scientific research.
The authors have created seven Units, each Unit contain parts devoted to different academic skills – reading, writing, speaking and listening and use of English.
The Units include high-interest contemporary topics in scientific ethics that will be of interest for young scientists. The comprehensive skills practice will enable EFL students express themselves coherently in discussing scientific problems and making presentations, writing abstracts and articles. The students are provided with authentic materials from scientific journals and university lectures, they will be able to develop their skills in academic reading, listening and note taking.
The tasks of every part of the Unit focus on academic and practical vocabulary building, at the end of every Unit the students will systematically record new academic vocabulary, which is necessary for his/her further development as a scintist in a particular field.
Opinion questions in every Unit stimulate inferencing, crtitical thinking and discussion. This kind of tasks will surely develop students’ speaking skill.
Specific reading skills such as skimming, scanning, drawing conclusions, paraphrasing, summarizing, using context clues, understanding sequences in a variety of reading environments are reflected in unit tasks.
Integration of information and ideas will help students learn to organize and classify data and write their own annotated bibliography, abstract and article, thus, prepare them to share their research results with the scientific community. The information collected about the requirements to publications of different journals will broaden their awareness of the main rules every scientist should follow to be successful and famous.
Academic listening tasks involve not only language skills alone. The students will practise in listening to lectures and taking notes, predicting information and organizing it.
The authors think that developing creativeness in young scientists is worth spending time. There are tasks, which require that all students shall solve the problems involving their creative thinking, research abilities, and tackle a problem again using a new pitch.