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Unit 1 Planning Teaching Objectives By the end of this unit, the students should be able to 1. know how to choose a research topic, know how to formulate a research question, know how to establish a research title; 2. analyze the structure of the target text; 3. acquire awareness of complicated academic sentence patterns; 4. notice the characteristics of academic vocabulary; 5. notice the hedging expressions; 6. identify implicit and explicit voices. Teaching Procedures 1. Tasks : how to choose a research topic, how to formulate a research question, how to establish a research title 2. Assignments for Enhancing Academic Skills 3. Listening Tasks Ⅰ. How to choose a research topic Get ideas for your topic Choose an interesting topic. Keep your topic manageable. Task 1: Please analyze the steps as to how a topic is made more concrete Transportation Development Step 1: Transportation Development Step 2: Reasonable Transportation Development of Cities Step 3:Reasonable Transportation Development of Medium-size Cities Step 4: Reasonable Transportation Development of Medium-size Cities in China Step 5: Reasonable Transportation Development of Medium-size Cities in China from the Perspective of Environmental Protection Task 2: Please make the following topics narrower and more manageable Energy development • Step 1:Reasonable energy development • Step 2:Reasonable energy development of China • Step 3:Reasonable energy development from the perspective of environmental protection Computer development • Step 1:Computer software development • Step 2:Recent computer software development • Step 3 : Recent computer software development for Chinese E-business Security Problem Step 1:Food security problem Step 2:Food security problem in present Chinese school Step 3: How to solve food security problem in Chinese school Genetic Engineering Step 1: Development of genetic engineering Step 2: Development of genetic engineering in medicine field Step 3: The future of human health from the perspective of development of genetic engineering in medicine field II.Formulating a research question a research question is a statement that identifies the focus of your topic. an example: Ideas = Frank Lloyd Wright or modern architecture Research Question： How has Frank Lloyd Wright influenced modern architecture? Focused Research Question：What design principles used by Frank Lloyd Wright are common in contemporary homes? two aims of a research question: 1) It identifies the specific and the central objectives of research. 2) It determines the size of research, the length of paper and the theoretical and academic depth of research. Task 4: Read Text 1 and then list the research questions. Research question1 in text 1: Why is it necessary to predict the future? Research question2 in text 1: What will be the common features of the booming businesses in 2020 ? Research question3: What fields are likely to flourish in 2020? Task 5: Develop each of the following topics into two or three research questions. Topic 1: Global Warming and Its Effects Research question1: What are the main factors to cause global warming? Research question2: What are the negative effects of global warming?
Research question3:How to deal with the global warming? ges of nuclear energv? Topic 3:The food seo he working utle shou8 be ev。 early in the research process because it cn help anchor the focusof research Warming Task 7:Writea answer (Omitted) earch title after reading the following essay (text3) Listening g to listen to alecture about "BusinessWhat are the definitions of the following terms?You can refer to b(无线射频识别D 5)Green CEO: 子M -platforms are there Red the intrdctions dusthe opad h plete the blanks what I call the vice will trum em.And so it's the it of better things,easily shared.And we come from a lon other sorts of snorts are nas.public parks.concert halls..universities.ll Task5:Watch Lecture 2 and answer the following questions. p-up stores do? 3.What is the opportunity when we're connected? -I'm thinking that,coming from the side of things and th se are businesses like Zipcar or Netfix that are full mesh businesses,or other ones Braimnsorm forpoente uson nto
Research question3: How to deal with the global warming? Topic 2: The Potentials of Nuclear Energy Research question1: What are the advantages of nuclear energy? Research question2: How do we make use of nuclear energy nowadays? Research question3: How to develop the nuclear energy correctly andsafely ? Topic 3: The food security problem Research question1: What are the problems in the present food market? Research question2:Why is food security important? Research question3: How do we standardize the present food market? III. Forming a working research title The working title should be developed early in the research process because it can help anchor the focus of research. Task6: Suppose that you are going to write an essay about Global Warming. Work in pairs to discuss the following essay titles and tell each other the most suitable one you will choose and why. 1.Global Warming 2.The Effect of Global Warming 3.The Causes and Effects of Global Warming 4.How to Deal With Global Warming 5.Some Effects of Global Warming in China 6.A Study of Some Effects of Global Warming in China 7.A Study of Global Warming in China From the Prospective of Energy Consumption Answer: I will choose "7. A Study of Global Warming in China From the Prospective of Energy Consumption".Because it can reflect the central ideas of the essay from the research content and the research method. Task 7: Write a research title after reading the following essay (text 3) answer:(Omitted.) Listening Task 1. Suppose you are going to listen to a lecture about "Business". What are the definitions of the following terms? You can refer to Google and Wikipedia for help. 1) The sustainable development: 2) GPS: 3) Ecology: 4) RFID: （无线射频识别） 5) Green CEO: Task 2: watch Lecture 1 and answer the following questions: 1. What is essentially a fundamental shift in our relationship with stuff, with the things in our lives? 2. What kinds of share-platforms are there in our lives? 3. What are the keys to making us contact closely? Task 3: Read the introductions of two lectures and guess the topics and the contents. 1. Topic: Content: Task 4: Watch Lecture 1 and complete the blanks with what you hear. I'm speaking to you about what I call the ___. It's essentially a fundamental ___ in our relationship with stuff, with the things in our lives. And it's starting to look at -- not always and not for everything -- but in certain moments of time, access to certain kinds of goods and service will trump ___ of them. And so it's the pursuit of better things, easily shared. And we come from a long tradition of ___. We've shared transportation. We've shared wine and food and other sorts of fabulous ___in coffee bars in Amsterdam. We've also shared other sorts of ___ -- sports arenas, public parks, concert halls, libraries, universities. All these things are share-platforms. Task 5: Watch Lecture 2 and answer the following questions. 1. Have many people heard of pop-up stores or pop-up shops? 2.From the lecturer's perspective, what is one of the things pop-up stores do? 3. What is the opportunity when we're connected? Task 6: Watch Lecture 2 and complete the blanks with what you hear . Since I'm here -- and I hope some people in the audience are in the car business -- I'm thinking that, coming from the ___side of things - - we saw cable-ready TVs and WiFi-ready Notebooks -- it would be really ___ if, any minute now, you guys could start rolling shareready cars off. Because it just creates more ___. It allows us as owners to have other options. And I think we're going there anyway.The opportunity and the ___ with mesh businesses -- and those are businesses like Zipcar or Netflix that are full mesh businesses, or other ones ___ you have a lot of the car companies, car manufacturers. Assignment Brainstorm for a potential topic you are going to research in the course, formulate research questions of the topic which you want to answer through your research and form a working research title for your research essay
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Read text 4 and answer the following questions. How does the writer develop his main ideas in terms of organization? Which structure does the writer use to illustrate around the question, "When will the Internet Reach Its Limit and How Do We Stop That from Happening?"? How is Paragraph 4 &5 organized? What are the signal words? In Paragraph 9&10, how does the writer arrange the different approaches to make a network more aware of the information? Listening Task 1: Watch Lecture 1 and answer the following questions: 1. What does the lecturer want to show by giving the example of a pen that can penetrate into the digital space? 2. Why does the lecturer say choreography can be taught physically over distance? 3. What is the advantage of students learning about the complex concepts by using physical pixel? 4. What is the "physical pixel" about? 5. What is the title of this lecture you may suggest? Task 2: Watch Lecture 1 again complete the blanks with what you hear. And by digitally the object, we are liberating the object from of time and space, which means that now, human can be recorded and played back and left permanently in the physical world. So choreography can be taught physically over and Michael Jordan's famous shooting can be replicated over and over as a physical reality. Students can use this as a tool to learn about the complex concepts such as planetary motion, physics, and unlike computer screens or textbooks, this is a real, experience that you can touch and feel, and it's very powerful. Task 3: Watch Lecture 2 and answer the following questions 1. What does the lecturer think of the status quo computer interfaces? 2. What is the BumpTop? And what inspired the lecturer to create it? 3. What is the biggest difference between BumpTop and the traditional desktop? 4. What valuable properties of paper does the lecturer take into the icons? 5. What do you think of BumpTop? Task 4: Watch Lecture 2 again complete the blanks with what you hear. Despite computers everywhere paper really hasn't disappeared, because it has a lot of, I think, properties. And some of those we wanted to to the icons in our system. So one of the things you can do to our icons, just like paper, is them and fold them, just like paper. Remember, you know, something for later. Or if you want to be , you can just crumple it up and, you know, toss it to the corner. Also just like paper, around our we'll pin things up to the wall to remember them later, and I can do the same thing here, and you know, you'll see post-it notes and things like that around people's offices. And I can pull them off when I want to work with them. Assignment In this unit you have learned how to read for a specific academic purpose, and how to find reliable sources. And in Unit 1, you have decideded on your research topic, and now you are searching for source materials for your research. Please list as many as 10 books, journals or websites which may offer source materials to your research, and give your reasons why you choose them. Unit 3Evaluating and Organizing Information Learning Objectives By the end of this unit, the students should be able to know how to read critically, take notes of relevant information, summarize information from texts ; analyze the structure of the target text; acquire awareness of complicated academic sentence patterns; notice the characteristics of academic vocabulary; notice the hedging expressions; identify implicit and explicit voices. Learning Procedures ★Tasks Learn to read critically,take notes and summarize information from texts