20220506-文章写作
The Most Common Habits from more than 200 English Papers written by Graduate Chinese Engineering Students by Felicia Brittman (2003)
常见的中国学生的英文撰写错误:
(1) a/an/the的用法。
the是特指,a/an是虚指
例句:
Incorrect :The software PowerSHAPE is chosen to be a 3D modeling tool; it is
good at dealing with free surfaces and curves.4
Correct :The software PowerSHAPE is chosen to be the 3D modeling tool; it is
good at dealing with free surfaces and curves.4
本研究中仅使用了一个 3D 建模工具,因此“3D 建模工具”是特定的,需要用the。
(2) 长句改短句,短句变清晰。
一句话表达内容尽量不要多,简洁明了;
最好不要以目的,地点,原因状语开头,容易错失句子中心意思;
主要内容放在句首。
(3)细节---单词用法
that/which用法,考虑代指一句话还是整个句子;
respectively/respective,respectively放在句末!
短语尽量避免频繁使用(‘In this paper’, ‘in this study’);
句子开头的阿拉伯数字需要使用英文拼写;
‘such as’ and ‘etc.’用法:前者开始句子,后者结束句子;
不用复数,literature (when referring to research), equipment, staff (referring to a group of people), faculty;
避免使用 ‘by this way’. 而使用 ‘by doing this’, or ‘using this method’;
保持中性观点,避免使用obviously,结尾词too, 地点at home’, ‘abroad’, ‘here’, ‘our country