教材致力於培養學生的英語學術能力，使其掌握一定的聽、說、讀、寫等學術英語交流能力；培養學生的學術寫作能力，使其能夠使用學術資源，以口語表達或論文、報告和討論課發言等形式，闡明觀點；增強學生的自主學習能力，使其能夠利用網絡、詞典等輔助手段進行相關專業的英文文獻檢索、評價、綜述的能力，能夠運用檢索信息進行自主學習；培養學生的批判性思維能力，使其能夠通過批判性閱讀就學術話題形成自己獨立的觀點；培養學生的團隊精神和人際交往能力，使其具有溝通交流、跨文化交流能力和團隊合作完成研究項目的能力。

●Unit 1 Urban Planning 1
Text A Pre-reading tasks 2
Living Lab: Urban Planning Goes Digital in Spanish
“Smart City” 3
After-reading check 7
Academic writing 11
Planning essays 11
Writing an explanation essay 13
Text B Urban Resilience for a New Century 15
After-reading check 19
Academic writing 22
Nominalization: moving towards more academic writing 22
Modality: using modality in your writing 25
Critical thinking 26
Unit 2 Education 27
Text A Pre-reading tasks 28
Higher Education, Creative Destruction 29
After-reading check 33
Academic writing 36
Writing an argument essay 36
Text B Free Education: Learning New Lessons 39
After-reading check 45
Academic writing 48
Cohesion through discourse markers: addition, example,
deduction and summation 48
Writing a comparison and contrast essay 49
Critical thinking 52
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Unit 3 Science and Technology 55
Pre-reading tasks Text A 56
At 50 Years Old, the Challenge to Keep up with Moore’s Law 57
After-reading check 61
Academic writing 65
Writing a discussion essay 65
Text B The Future of Computing after Moore’s Law 69
After-reading check 73
Academic writing 76
Cohesion through markers that indicate reasons 76
Writing a cause and e ect essay 77
Critical thinking 80
Unit 4 Economy 83
Text A Pre-reading tasks 84
Wage Inequality: A Race between Education and
Technology85
After-reading check 88
Academic writing 93
Paragraph formatting 1 93
Text B Is Brexit the Beginning of the End for Globalization95
After-reading check 99
Academic writing 102
Di erences between spoken and written register 102
Critical thinking 106
Unit 5 Academic Dishonesty 107
Text A Pre-reading tasks 108
When “Exciting” Trumps “Honest”, Traditional Academic
Journals Encourage Bad Science 109
After-reading check 113
Academic writing 116
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Paragraph formatting 2 116
Text B Innovation: Time to Fix Patents 120
After-reading check 124
Academic writing 127
Interpreting and describing information from tables and gures 127
Critical thinking 130
Unit 6 Medication and Health 131
Pre-reading tasks Text A 132
Is This Antibiotic Apocalypse133
After-reading check 137
Academic writing 141
Writing to propose 141
Text B Promoting Immunology: The Future Is Here 143
After-reading check 146
Academic writing 149
Writing notes to a paper 149
Critical thinking 153
Unit 7 Environment 155
Text A Pre-reading tasks 156
Accelerating Extinction Risk from Climate Change 157
After-reading check 164
Academic writing 168
Writing research reports 168
Text B Australian Community Members’ Attitudes toward
Climate Change Impacts at the Great Barrier Reef 172
After-reading check 181
Academic writing 184
Mini-research project 184
Critical thinking 186
Unit 8 Studying Behavior 187
Pre-reading tasks Text A 188
The Linguistic Genius of Babies 189
After-reading check 193
Academic writing 197
Oral presentation skills and oral discourse markers 197
Further oral presentation skills 200
Oral presentation assignment 202
Text B Parental Involvement and Student Achievement 203
After-reading check 205
Academic writing 207
Tutorial participation skills 207
Using visual aids in presentations 209
Giving constructive criticism 211
Critical thinking 212

本教材旨在培養學生的英語學術能力，共分為，涉及城市規劃、驕傲與、科技、經濟、學術氣站、醫療衛生、環境和學習行為八個主題，依托每個主題展開一個具體的學術英語能力訓練；同時，該教材力求增強學生的自主學習能力、批判性思維能力，使學生能夠通過批判性閱讀對學術話題形成自己獨立的觀點。

《綜合學術英語教程》一書依據《大學英語教學指南》中提出的提高和\\發展目標，面向具有較高英語水平的學習者而編寫。該教材旨在培養學生的英\\語學術能力，使其掌握一定的說、讀、寫等學術英語交流能力；注重培養學生\\的學術寫作能力，使其能夠使用學術資源，用論文、報告等形式闡明觀點或立\\場，語言清晰、結構明確；同時增強學生的自主學習能力和批判性思維能力，\\使其能夠通過批判性閱讀對學術話題形成自己獨立的觀點。\\全書共，涉及城市規劃、教育、科技、經濟、學術欺詐、醫療衛生、\\環境和學習行為八個主題。前對學術英語交流的文體和寫作方式進行\\介紹，使學生通過配套練習循序漸進地掌握不同文體的表達技巧；最後兩個是關於研究報告及口頭陳述的學術英語的實踐應用。本教材依托每個主題展\\開具體的學術英語能力訓練，每種能力細分為閱讀、寫作和思辨能力培等