《大学思辨英语教程写作4》参考答案-Unit 1.pdf

Unit1OverviewofAcademicWriting

Pre-classreadingandresearch

1.

Whatisacademicculture?

Suggestedpoints:Academicculturegenerallyreferstothewayoflifeofacademics.Itisasetof

taken-for-grantedvalues,attitudesandwaysofbehaving,whicharelearned,sharedandreinforced

throughrecurrentpracticesamongacademicsinagivenacademiccontext.

Whatisdisciplinaryculture?

Suggestedpoints:Disciplinarycultureisasystemofvalues,attitudesandbehaviorpatternsshared

bymembersofascientificcommunitywithinthesamediscipline.Disciplineconstitutesaspecific

areaofscholarlyactivityandrepresentsacommunityofresearchersthatsharecommonsubject

matters,methodologicalprotocolsandresearchparadigms.

2.

Answer(Tips):Studentsaresuggestedpreparingforinterviewquestionsinadvance.Interview

questionsmayinclude:(1)Whatroledouniversitiesplayinknowledgeconstruction?(2)How

knowledgeisproducedatuniversities?(3)Towhatextentisdoingandpublishingresearchan

integralpartofprofessors’lifeatuniversities?(4)Whatarethedifferencesbetweeneveryday

knowledgeand“scientific”knowledgeproducedatuniversities?Follow-upquestionsmaybe

askedduringtheinterview.

Activity1

Languagestudies:

Languagestudiesincludebothlinguisticstudiesandappliedlinguisticstudies.Linguistsattempt

todiscoversimilaritiesanddifferencesbothwithinandacrossparticularlanguages;applied

linguistsapplythefindingsoflinguisticresearchtootherareas,suchaslanguageeducation,

translation,andlanguageplanning.Researchersoflanguagestudiesusuallytakeapractical,

problem-drivenrationale.Theyconstructdisciplinaryknowledgethroughnegotiating,arguing,

debatingandassertingthefindingsoftheirownandotherscholars’research(boththeoreticaland

empirical)inoralcommunicationsandacademicwriting.Suchwaysofknowledgeconstruction

amonglinguistsandapplied