科技论文的撰写与评定──并试述狭义写作法

本文讨论了科技论文的范围、格式、写作规则、思辩准备和写作方法．推荐了狭义写作法，此法除写作论文具有一定型式、使于写作外，还把作者的注意力引向章节间的内在联系，使辩证唯物的逻辑思维成为写作中心．     

王澍访谈

文章记录了一次对王澍的访谈。采用对话形式,通过提问的设置、王澍的回答及其他参与对话者的互动讨论,展示出王澍对写作、建筑设计和建筑教育中的若干问题的思考。     

论现代平面设计对中国水墨画的借鉴

现代平面设计需要多元文化背景的支撑,以适应现代社会信息交流和沟通的需要.立足于本土文化,保持本土平面设计的特性,则具有重要的意义.中国传统水墨画提供了借鉴的可能性.它从构图、色彩、笔墨技法以及意境等方面对现代平面设计有着不容忽视的借鉴作用.对水墨的借鉴不应仅仅是形式的模仿,更需要发掘其深层次的元素和内涵,理解水墨文化的深层意蕴,将这些元素转化为设计师自身独特的设计语言,唯此才能扩大借鉴的广度和深度,为中国的平面设计带来更新的设计纬度.     

Composition, Computer Games, and the Absence of Writing

Computer games fundamentally incorporate composition into their game play. Highly symbolic constructs, whose photo-realistic graphical environments are often produced by combining pre-existing elements, computer games not only require players to read and to make meaning of symbols presented on the screen but to write and ultimately to revise their actions in the game relationship to these symbols. This activity, which is often constructed as “play” rather than writing, is significant in that, although its effects appear to be limited to the conversations taking place on the screen, its focus is ultimately on how players read and write (compose) themselves in relationship to the game and to the larger socio-political structures upon which the game is beholden. Computer games thus have the potential to help students not only understand the fundamentals of the compositional process and the larger socio-political structures within which this process occurs but to recognize how these socio-political structures construct reading and writing and in doing so determine the way that the individuals subject to them construct (read and write) themselves.     

谈如何提高学生的英语写作能力

具体阐述语篇教学与写作的关系及提高写作能力的几种方法,通过各种手段促进学生;写作能力的提高。     

The affordances of reading/writing on paper and digitally in Finland

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of digital technologies on reading and writing in Finland. The perceived affordances of reading and writing on paper and digitally are compared by analysing written essays collected from 25 communication students in 2013. Research design is replicated from a study of Fortunati and Vincent that concerns Italian students. Results show that Finnish students perceive more positive than negative affordances regarding reading on paper, while reading on screen attracts fewer virtues. In this respect, results are in line with the Italian study. Unlike in Italy, students in Finland value writing on a keyboard especially because it enables editing the text quickly and efficiently and thus increases textual productivity. The study shows that Finnish students take some affordances of digital writing for granted and do not recognise their non-digital alternatives. This implies that they are perhaps more embedded in the digital world than Italian students. The Technological Frames approach is utilised to expound these country differences.     

Measuring Quality of Writing of Construction Specifications

The quality of writing of construction specifications is one of the greatest challenges facing construction contractors or their representatives in today’s business environment. Writers of construction specifications have been criticized for their contribution toward construction disputes. Although the construction business environment has moved toward modernization of some of its business processes, claims arising from construction specifications continue to rise. Equally, a written exposition of a quantitative instrument that measures the quality of writing of construction specifications is not available in the literature. Thus the construction industry needs to develop methodologies for measuring the quality of writing of construction specifications that should overcome their current underperformance in this area. This paper presents the procedures that underlie the quality of writing of construction specifications, gives a management tool for facilitating its measurement, and also presents the results of construction contractors’ practices regarding the quality of said writing. The results show that the surveyed Malawian construction contractors were in the process of putting in place principles to govern the quality of writing of construction specifications.     

Gay Gaer Luce and Julius Segal: Distinguished Science Writing Award.

This year's Distinguished Science Writing Award, presented by the American Psychological Foundation, is given jointly to: Gay Gaer Luce and Julius Segal for their book entitled Sleep--published by Coward-McCann. This year's award is of special interest for at least two reasons: Gay Luce is a two-time winner, having received the award in 1962 for her magazine articles; and Julius Segal is the first APA member to receive the award. Gay Gaer Luce is a science writer who began preparing her material on the subject of sleep for the National Institute of Mental Health. Julius Segal is a psychologist and writer on the staff of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Brief autobiographical sketches are presented for the two writers. Through their painstaking research combined with clear and eloquent writing, Gay Luce and Julius Segal have made a brilliant contribution and have set a new standard for popular writing in the behavioral sciences. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

改进词汇教学，提高书面表达能力

通过分析英语学习者在书面表达中出现的词汇输出障碍,进而探讨采取相应的对策改进词汇教学,从而提高书面表达能力。文章指出,在词汇教学中教师应该着重讲授同义词之间的区别、词汇的搭配知识,并通过大量练习来巩固词汇。此外,教师还应该注意培养学习者良好的词汇习得模式。     

Motivating Technical Writing through Study of the Environment

Today’s engineers must be more than just technically competent. To be successful in our increasingly global economy in which teamwork and interdisciplinary interaction are the norm, engineers must have excellent communication skills. In recognition of industry needs, the San José State University College of Engineering redesigned its technical communication course to ensure that students graduate with writing and speaking skills that will transfer readily to their career needs and the global arena. The course aims to motivate students through exploring topics that are meaningful to them and using communication formats that they will see in the workplace. Combining technical communication with study of the environment broadens the course to meet multiple Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology outcomes. This paper describes the course goals, organization, management, selected assignments, and assessment. Assessment data indicate that at the end of the semester students, on average, have gained between 0.8 and 1.1 points on a 12-point evaluation rubric and have gained an appreciation of the unique characteristics of and need for technical writing.