- •Министерство образования и науки Российской Федерации
- •Master Students English Professional Training At Technical University
- •General Scientific Method and Scientific Research
- •Experiments
- •Formal sciences
- •B) Try to comment on the following notions with your partner(s):
- •Approaches to Managing Quality
- •Task 5. Read the text about the ideal scientific supervisor and say which of these traits your supervisor possesses. The Ideal Scientific Supervisor
- •How Skype Is Changing the Interview Process?
Министерство образования и науки Российской Федерации
«Волгоградский государственный технический университет»
Кафедра «Иностранные языки»
Master Students English Professional Training At Technical University
Методические рекомендации по развитию компетенций делового общения и поискового чтения аутентичных текстов экономико-технического профиля
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Профессиональный английский язык для магистров
экономических специальностей
Волгоград 2012
ББК Ш143.
Рецензент: кандидат педагогических наук, доцент Е.В. Новоженина
Master Students English Professional Training. Методические рекомендации по развитию компетенций делового общения и поискового чтения аутентичных текстов экономико-технического профиля для аспирантов и студентов. Английский язык. / Сост.: В.А. Пахарукова, О.А. Евтушенко, Т.С. Брыжина, Л.А.Заворуева, Н.В. Стрепетова. – Волгоград: ВолгГТУ, 2012 - с.32.
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© Волгоградский государственный технический университет, 2012.
Module II. MODERN SCIENCE TENDENCY
Task1. A) Read the text paying attention to the words underlined.
General Scientific Method and Scientific Research
Scientific method refers to a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning. The Oxford English Dictionary says that scientific method is "a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses".
A hypothesis is a suggested explanation of a phenomenon, a reasoned proposal suggesting a possible correlation between or among a set of phenomena. Normally hypotheses have the form of a mathematical model. Sometimes they can also be formulated as existential statements, stating that some particular instance of the phenomenon being studied has some characteristic and causal explanations, which have the general form of universal statements, stating that every instance of the phenomenon has a particular characteristic.
Scientists are free to use whatever resources they have — their own creativity, ideas from other fields, induction, and so on — to imagine possible explanations for a phenomenon under study.