工科学术英语写作学习之语言简洁 [学术英语写作]

学术英语的撰写在要求语体正式外,还必须做到语言简洁 (Conciseness),即用最少的词汇传达尽最多的信息,这似乎是一对矛盾,但它的确是语言简洁的最好定义。
Because of the fact that motion pictures are playing an increasingly important role in our multimedia environments, the focus of this paper is put to video sequences as multimedia resources.
应改为:
Because motion pictures are playing an increasingly important role in our multimedia environments, this paper focuses on video sequences as multimedia resources.
在内容方面,在写作的时候,记住文章的主题和目的,而不能包括除此之外的内容,尤其自己觉得有趣或是花了很多精力和时间的部分——比如花大力气做过的实验但与文章主旨不相关,同时也要在内容的表达避免出现过多重复的地方。
在语言表达上容易犯的简洁性错误主要有以下几个方面:
1 空洞的短语 (Empty phrase)
are in agreement with →agree with at the present time →now fewer in number →fewer with the exception of →except …
工科学术英语写作学习之正式语体 [学术英语写作]
最近在学习工科学术英语写作(Academic English Writing Skills for Engineering),为了加强学习效果,特将学习笔记总结,也供有需要的工科科研人员参考。
比起一般的英语学习方法,学术英语写作有其特点,其中之一为整体语体的正式性 (Formal tone),即正式的语气,绝非口语式的语气。可以从以下几个方面着手。
1. 注意用词的正式性
避免采用口语词汇——日常英语口语的词汇;
Improved analytical approaches are necessary to meet more and more stringent regulatory requirements for the determination of impurities.
此处more and more应采用increasingly.
限制使用and so on, etc. 等来列举,尽量使用such as更显得正式。
2. 正式的语法结构
不要采用缩写模式,比如:It’s …, 而应写全It is …
3. 谨慎使用命令式语气和疑问句
4. 优先使用单个单词而不是短语动词
This interaction is made better by other sequence motifs.
此处made better应改为enhanced.
5. 对动词合理使用副词进行修饰
These transducers have been used with success to excite and capture the modes at low frequencies other studies.