迄今国内绝大多数高校及大多数专业都开设了专业英语课程,但已有的相关教材和课程教学内容几乎均仅限于专业文献的选读,这样既限制学生学习课程的兴趣也影响教学质量。《农业与生物科学专业英语Academic English in Agriculture and Biology》是作者对学习和教授专业英语课程的经验与教学成果的总结,其内容和编排系统都较新颖。《农业与生物科学专业英语Academic English in Agriculture and Biology》内容分为9章,第1章概述专业英语的相关概念、课程内涵及学习策略;第2章讲述英文词汇学与词汇快速扩充方法;在第3章介绍提高文献阅读效率的技巧之后,第4章选编8篇农学与生物学文献供学生进行阅读实践;第5~7章讨论英语的写作基本理论知识,包括文章的组织结构与衔接、常见写作错误与校正及重要的语言程式;第8~9章分别讨论事务信函和科研论文的写作。每章都附有中文提要和练习题,书末附有不规则动词和名词、常用拉丁语词组及英语词缀等重要参考知识。
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Contents前言Chapter 1 An Introduction to Academic English 11.1 Concept of academic English 11.2 Academic English course 21.3 The academic English course book 21.4 Organizing your study 31.5 Strategies for English learning 6Chapter 2 Learning New Words and Extending Your Vocabulary 92.1 General strategies and skills for learning new words 92.2 English word formation 162.2.1 Conversion of words 162.2.2 Word compounding 182.2.3 Abbreviation 212.2.4 Affixation 242.3 Word roots 272.3.1 Some common roots 272.3.2 Exploring the basics of roots 282.4 Word element 302.4.1 Origin of word elements 302.4.2 Some words and their element forms 31Chapter 3 Techniques for Improving Efficiency of Reading English Literatures 333.1 Reading with a purpose 333.2 Using the title 353.3 Surveying a book 373.4 Surveying a text using first few lines of paragraphs 403.5 Surveying a text using the first and the last paragraphs 423.6 Scanning 443.7 Knowing meaning of words or phrases in context 453.8 Multiple reading skills by knowing the text organization 45Chapter 4 Selected Readings in Biology and Agriculture 504.1 Microorganism 504.1.1 History 514.1.2 Classification and structure 524.1.3 Habitats and ecology 554.1.4 Importance 564.2 Agriculture 594.2.1 Etymology and terminology 604.2.2 History 604.2.3 Workforce 684.2.4 Safety 684.2.5 Agricultural production systems 694.2.6 Production practices 714.2.7 Crop alteration and biotechnology 724.2.8 Environmental impact 734.2.9 Agricultural economics 764.2.10 Agriculture policy 774.3 Systematics,taxonomy and classification 784.3.1 The importance of biological classification 794.3.2 Taxonomic hierarchies 794.3.3 The goals of classification systems 814.3.4 Phenetic systematics 824.3.5 Cladistic systematics 834.3.6 Constructing phylogenies 844.3.7 Taxonomic keys 894.3.8 Summary 894.4 Weed management in organic crop production 904.4.1 Prevention 904.4.2 Sanitation 914.4.3 Cultural control 924.4.4 Crop competition 934.4.5 Mechanical control by tillage 964.4.6 Harvest management 994.4.7 Other control methods 994.4.8 Allelopathy 1004.4.9 Biological weed control 1014.4.10 Conclusion 1014.5 Genetically modified crops 1024.5.1 Gene transfer in nature and traditional agriculture 1024.5.2 History 1024.5.3 Methods 1034.5.4 Types of genetic engineering 1044.5.5 Business of GM crops 1054.5.6 Uses,actual and proposed 1064.5.7 Extent of worldwide use of GM crops 1084.5.8 Examples of genetically modified crops 1094.5.9 Effects on farming practices 1114.5.10 Regulation 1124.5.11 Controversy 1124.6 Archaea:the life’s extremists 1124.6.1 Archaea fossil record 1144.6.2 Archaea ecology 1154.6.3 Archaea systematics 1164.6.4 Archaea morphology 1184.7 Plant genomics-sowing the seeds of success 1224.7.1 Crop genomics:growing potential 1224.7.2 Model behavior:lessons from Arabidopsis and Brachypodium 1234.7.3 Sensing change:responses to the environment 1244.7.4 The tree of life 1254.7.5 Concluding remarks 1254.8 Lichens:an alliance between kingdoms 1264.8.1 Fossil record of lichens 1264.8.2 Life history and ecology 1274.8.3 Systematics of lichens 1294.8.4 More on morphology of lichens 129Chapter 5 Awareness and Correction of Errors in Writing 1325.1 Some common causes of error 1325.2 Errors and corrections in standard usage 1335.2.1 Cases of nouns and pronouns 1335.2.2 Agreement of verb with subject 1345.2.3 Agreement of pronoun with antecedent 1355.2.4 Agreement of denominative adjective with its object 1365.3 Unity and coherence in the sentence 1365.3.1 Unity of thought 1365.3.2 Unity of structure 1375.3.3 Coherence 1385.4 Errors and correction in spelling 1415.4.1 Some effective ways of reducing misspelling 1415.4.2 Some principles of spelling 1425.5 Correct use of vocabulary and grammar 1455.6 Writing styles 1475.7 Writing tentativeness 149Chapter 6 Structural Organization and Cohesion of General Texts 1516.1 AND type connectives 1526.2 OR type connectives 1546.3 BUT type connectives 155Chapter 7 Language Function 1577.1 Language function one:description 1577.1.1 Describing the size of things 1577.1.2 Describing shape and orientation 1597.1.3 Describing climate 1607.1.4 Describing process 1617.2 Language function two:definition 1637.2.1 General definition 1637.2.2 Reduced definition 1637.2.3 Definition of academic subjects 1647.3 Language function three:exemplification 1647.4 Language function four:classification and analysis 1657.4.1 Classification 1657.4.2 Analysis 1677.5 Language function five:comparison and contrast 1687.5.1 Comparison 1697.5.2 Contrast 1697.5.3 Superlative 1707.5.4 Comparative 1707.6 Language function fix:cause and effect 1717.7 Language function seven:generalization and qualification 1747.8 Language function eight:interpretation of data 1767.9 Language function nine:argumentation 1787.10 Language function ten:drawing conclusions 179Chapter 8 Writing Busin