学术英语理工
教师手册
Unit 1 Choosing a Topic
I Teaching Objectives
In this unit , you will learn how to:
a particular topic for your research
a research question
a working title for your research essay
your language skills related with reading and listening materials presented in this unit
II. Teaching Procedures
on a topic
Task 1
Answers may vary.
Task 2
1 No, because they all seem like a subject rather than a topic, a subject which cannot be addressed even by a whole book, let alone by a1500-wordessay.
2Each of them can be broken down into various and more specific aspects. For example, cancer can be classified into breast cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer and so on. Breast cancer can have such specific topics for research as causes for breast cancer, effects of breast cancer and prevention or diagnosis of breast cancer.
3 Actually the topics of each field are endless. Take breast cancer for example, we can have the topics like:
Why Women Suffer from Breast Cancer More Than Men?
A New Way to Find Breast Tumors
Some Risks of Getting Breast Cancer in Daily Life
Breast Cancer and Its Direct Biological Impact
Breast Cancer—the Symptoms & Diagnosis
Breastfeeding and Breast Cancer
Task 3
1 Text 1 illustrates how hackers or unauthorized users use one way or another to get inside a computer, while Text
2 describes the various electronic threats a computer may face.
2 Both focus on the vulnerability of a computer.
3 Text 1 analyzes the ways of computer hackers, while Text 2 describes security problems of a computer.
4 Text 1: The way hackers “get inside” a computer
Text 2: Electronic threats a computer faces
Yes, I think they are interesting, important, manageable and adequate.
Task 4
1Lecture1:Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
Lecture 2:How to Deal with Computer Hackers
Lecture 3:How I Begin to Develop Computer Applications
2Answersmay vary.
Task 5
Answers may vary.
2 Formulating a research question
Task 1
Text 3
Research question 1: How many types of cloud services are there and what are they? Research question 2: What is green computing?
Research question 3: What are advantages of the cloud computing?
Text 4
Research question 1: What is the Web ?
Research question 2: What are advantages and disadvantages of the cloud computing? Research question 3: What security benefits can the cloud computing provide?
Task 2
2 Topic2: Threats of Artificial Intelligence
Research questions:
1) What are the threats of artificial intelligence?
2) How can human beings control those threats?
3) What are the difficulties to control those threats?
3 Topic3: The Potentials of Nanotechnology
Research questions:
1) What are its potentials in medicine?
2) What are its potentials in space exploration?
3) What are its potentials in communications?
