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Inglés para la Investigación

• Pedro P. Sánchez Villalón
• Profesor de E.O.I. C.R.
• Investigador del grupo C.H.I.C.O. - UCLM

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Technical Writing in English

• The English Language The Language
  StructureTriads
• Written Texts and Writing Styles Classes
• Types of Texts and Kinds of Language (Styles)
  Used.
• Technical Writing. Research Articles Analysis
• Textual Organization, Gramatical Structure
  Lexical Components.
• The Writing Process From notes to texts (
  viceversa)
• Introduction Thesis, Body Development, Summary
  Conclucion.
• Practice Exercises, Composition Presentation

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LANGUAGE TRIADS (related by focus)
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE features

• It is not a SYNTHETIC language little
  inflection. Inflections Nouns, Noun's, Verbs,
  Verbed, ADJectiveser, est
• It is an ANALYTIC language (linguistics)
  expressing a grammatical category by using two or
  more words rather than inflection. Words are
  invariable.
• Syntactic relations by Word Order and Structural
  Words

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Writing Technical Texts ...

• involves
• adapting text to your purpose, by choosing the
  right words for the audience,
• constructing natural correct sentences connected
  with logic to negotiate their meaning,
• presenting attractive ideas in a normalized
  structure that is easy to follow

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Types of texts styles

• Texts
• Technical
• Informative
• Expository
• Opinion
• Literary others
• Poetic
• Narration
• Essays

• Languages
• Identificative-Descriptive
• Explanatory-Narrative
• Argumentative-Discursive

• Languages
• Descriptive
• Descriptive-Narrative
• Argumentative-Discursive

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Audience and Purpose

• Audience and Purpose are two basic components of
  the generation of a Research Paper. Effectiveness
  will depend on them. A mere interest in
  publishing articles for our CV may not be enough.
  There is some kind of necessity in communicating
  a researchers findings and achievements, which
  is more effective and rewarding.
• A writer should consider the readers knowledge,
  skill level and specialization. There is a load
  of shared information and common interests to
  take into account.
• Further Readings
• Writing with a Sense of Purpose at
  webster.commnet.edu

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Technical Writing

• Technical Writing
• It is objective and precise information intended
  to a specific audience and purpose.
• It deals with technical information.
• It is accurate and well-documented.
• It relies on visuals and uses numeric data for
  measures (quantity and direction).
• It is grammaticaly correct and stylistically
  convenient.
• It make extensive use of definitions.
• We define by classifying and differenciating
  within classes.
• Rules
• Do not define a term with the same term.
• Do not define a term with a term that needs
  definition or put it afterwards as an extension,
  if necessary (considering the audiences shared
  knowledge).
• It is not creative writing or personal writing.

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Technical Writing (II)

• Technical Writing involves
• definition and description
• data and analysis
• photographs diagrams and charts
• specialized vocabulary
• and a common sentence structure
• Extensions can include Comparison and Contrast,
  Cause and Effect, Exemplification, Process and
  Etymology
• Leo Finkelstein, Jr, Pocket Book of Technical
  Writing, (2-22)

Qualifier , TERM Class Differentiation Extension
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What is a Research Paper?

• A Research Paper is Technical Writing objective
  and precise texts, aimed to communicate
  specialized information to a particular audience
  and with a specific purpose.
• The purpose of Research is to discover new
  information and
• the purpose of a Research Paper is to take
  ownership of the newly-found knowledge
• Research Papers can range
• from Objective Reports, (PB of TW, Chapter 10,
  p.155 ff)
• through Explanation of a Process (PB of TW,
  Chapter 4, p. 43 ff)
• and Exposition of a Problem (RSCC OWL)
• to Argumentative Texts (RSCC OWL)

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Development The Writing Process

• The writers block and brainstorming techniques
  (Lexis)
• Outlining the structure from the Thesis Statement
• Expanding notes into topic sentences, paragraphs
  and sections (Grammar)
• Using patterns of composition and adding
  transitions.
• Summarising, revision and citation styles.