Unit 1 Choosing a Topic
1 Deciding on a topic
Text l How Do Computer Hackers "Get Inside"a Computer?
Text 2 Electronic Threats of a Computer
2 Formulating a research question
Text 3 Advantages ofCloud Computing
Text 4 Security Benefits of Cloud Computing
3 Writing a working title
4 Enhancingyour acadenuclanguage
Reading: Texts
Listening: Lectures
Unit 2 Searching for Information
1 Finding reliable and better sources
2 Scanningandskimming
Text 5 Can You Compete with A.l. for the Next Job?
3 Identifying topic sentences forinformation
Text 6 Game Theory
4 Guessingwordmeaning
From context
Text 7 Darkness on the Edqe of the Universe
Through affixes and roots
Text 8 How NanotechnologyWorks
5 Using the orgtuuzation ofthe text
Text 9 GlobaIWarminq and Its Efects
6 Reading critically
Text 10 GlobaIWarming
7 Takingnotes
8 Writing a summary
9 Enhancing your acadenuclanguage
Reading:Texts
Listening: Lectures
Unit 3 Listening to Lectures
1 Preparing forlistening to alecture
2 Paying attention to theintroduction
Lecture
3 Understanding theideas through examples
Lecture
4 Following alecture through signalwords
Lecture
5 Memorizing the points by taking notes
Lecture
Unit 4 Writing a Literature Review
1 Writing aliterature review
Text 11 Risks of Nuclear Power
Text 12 How Radiation Threatens Health
Text 13 Should Nuclear Radiation Found in Domestic Milk Come as a Surprise?
Text 14 Radiation and Health:The Aftershocks of Japan's Nuclear Disaster
2 Writing a self-containedliterature review
3 Writing aliterature review as a part ofan essay
4 Citation
5 Documentation
6 Avoidingplagiarism
7 Paraphrasing
8 Enhancing your academiclanguage
Reading:Texts
Listening: Lectures
Unit 5 Writing an Academic Essay
1 Definition
Text 15 Genetically Modified Foods-Feed the World?
Text 16 Influence of Genetically Modified Soya on the Birth Weight and -
Survival of Rat Pups
Text 17 Clinical Risk Assessment of GM Foods
2 Two types ofresearch paper
3 Writinganintroduction
4 Wriiting the body ofa secondary research essay
Defin'ition
Text 18 Physical Effects of Marijuana Use
Organizations
5 Writing the body of a primary research essay
Methods section
Results section
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Unit 6 Making an Oral Presentation
Appendix 1: Vocabulary
Appendix 2: A Student's Paper