1、 Foreign Studies College of Hunan Normal University I.Course Description II.Requirements of Research Papers This course is an attempt to guide the students to learn more advanced skills and strategies for thinking and writing in English of a more academic nature.They are required to write course pap
2、ers and dissertations which have to meet certain internationally accepted academic standards.The main purpose of doing research is not to summarize the work of others but to assimilate and to build on it and to arrive at you own understanding of the subject.Chapter 1 Research and WritingDescribe the
3、 first steps in a scholarly project:choosing a topic;using a library and the Internet;evaluating electronic sources;producing a working bibliography,notes,outlines,and drafts;and avoiding plagiarism 1.1 Selecting a topic.(3)consult library materials and other information resources.(4)Look for a subj
4、ect or an issue that will continue to engage you throughout research and writing.(1)Following Personal Interest (2)An online central information system (3)Reference Works(4)Compiling a Working Bibliography (6)Taking Notes(5)1.Authors full name(last name first)2.Full title(including any subtitle)3.Ed
5、ition(if the book is a second or later edition)4.Number of the volume and the total number of volumes(if the book is a multivolume work)5.City of publication6.Shortened form of the publishers name(see 6.5)7.Year of publication(4)A Citing Books(see 4.6)Authors name.Title of the book.Publication infor
6、mation.e.g.Wilson,Frank R.The Hand:How Its Use Shapes the Brain,Language,and Human Culture.New York:Pantheon,1998.1.Authors name2.Title of a part of the book3.Title of the book4.Name of the editor,translator,or compiler5.Edition used6.Number(s)of the volume(s)used7.Name of the series8.Place of publi
7、cation,name of the publisher,and date of publication9.Page numbers10.Supplementary bibliographic information and annotation a.A work in an anthologye.g.Allende,Isabel.“Toads Mouth.”Trans.Margaret Sayers Peden.A Hammock beneath the Mangoes:Stories from Latin America.Ed.Thomas Colchie.New York:Plume,1
8、992.83-88.b.An Introduction,a Preface,a Foreword,or an Afterworde.g.Borges,Jorge Luis.Forword.Selected Poems,1923-1967.By Borges.Ed.Norman Thomas Di Giovanni.New York:Delta-Dell,1973.XV-XVI.e.g.Doyle,Arthur Conan.The Oxford Sherlock Holmes.Ed.Owen Dudley Edwards.Vol.8.New York:Oxford UP,1993.Give th
9、e inclusive page numbers of the piece you are citing.Be sure to provide the page numbers for the entire piece,not just for the material you used.(4)B.Citing an Article in a Scholarly journal1.Authors name2.Title of the article 3.Title of the journal4.Volume number5.Year of publication6.Inclusive pag
10、e numbers of the article(i.e.the number of the page on which the article begins,a hyphen,and the number of the page on which the article ends)e.g.Vartanov,Anri.“Television as Spectacle and Myth.”Journal of Communication 41(1991):162-71.1.Evaluate the quality of any work before using and citing it 2.If you are working with literary texts that exist in various versions,make certain you use reliable editions.3.Researchers need to be concerned about the authority,accuracy,and currency of all sources they use.
