Achieving cohesion and coherence in academic writing

主讲人：Dr. Linda Lin （香港理工大学语言中心博士）
时间：2019年12月3日（周二）下午3:30-5:00
地点：文南楼116
主持人：郭茜（清华大学外文系长聘副教授，语言教育与应用语言学学科群负责人）

内容提要：
Cohesion and coherence are essential ingredients of academic writing. Many novice writers lack the ability to develop strong intra- and inter- paragraph connections. This problem seems particularly serious with Chinese writers because many of them rely heavily on sentence connectors, such as however, moreover and furthermore, to connect different parts of a text. This talk introduces practical strategies for achieving cohesion and coherence within a paragraph and between paragraphs in academic writing.
主讲人简介：
Dr. Linda Lin works for the English Language Centre of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is the Coordinator of two programmes operated in the Centre, the LCR (Language and Communication Requirement) subjects and the postgraduate subjects. She is the subject leader for English for University Studies, a subject taken by over 2,500 students per year. She has been involved in a number of research projects, one of them being a large UGC-funded inter-university project. She is currently co-leading a joint project with Stanford University. Her research interests include vocabulary studies, corpus analysis and applications of concordancing in teaching and learning.
主办单位：清华大学外文系语言教育及应用语言学学科群
协办单位：北京市高教学会大学英语研究会