深圳大学高等研究院黄月圆博士讲座通知

讲座时间：2019年5月8日 15：00---17：00

讲座地点：威尼斯wns.8885556外语学院3008会议室

讲座题目：The teaching ofEnglishthesis writing to science students: a structure-based approach

举办单位：外语学院英文系

The teaching ofEnglishthesis writing to science students: a structure-based approach

Huang Yue Yuan

Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University

Academic writing is at the heart of teaching and learning in higher education, with the graduation thesis writing as a capstone, because after all students are largely assessed by what they write. Many studies have been done on academic writing and different approaches have been suggested and tried. In China, non-English major students, both undergraduates and postgraduates, write their graduation thesis in Chinese. Now with a strong need for professional talents and internationalization, there is an urgent demand for the training of advanced English writing skills, such as thesis writing skills.

This talk reports our structure-based approach in teaching undergraduate science students to write their thesis in English. The Science Talent Experimental Class of Shenzhen University (深圳大学理工创新实验班) was founded in 2014, to explore a new model of training science talents. This program offers four majors: mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. In May 2018, the first batch of students graduated with a successful completion of their undergraduate thesis in English.

In this talk, we will discuss: (1) the structure-based thesis writing materials we have developed for the program, including thesis writing guidelines, thesis marking criteria; (2) the problems of students in the writing process; (3) our collaboration with the thesis supervisors of the four disciplines and our solution to the discipline-specific writing formats. The video of thesis oral presentations of our students will be shown, and our teaching materials will be shared.

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