- •English for Specific Purposes
- •Пояснительная записка
- •Contents
- •Unit 1. Becoming a master’s degree student
- •The Master’s Degree: a Closer Look
- •Unit 2. Becoming a member of an academic community
- •Becoming a Member of an Academic Community
- •Avoiding plagiarism
- •Unit 3. Becoming a young researcher
- •Originality of a Dissertation
- •Citation indexes and impact factors
- •The Structure of an Abstract
- •Unit 4. Becoming a conference attendee
- •Unit 4. Becoming a job applicant
- •________________________
- •Use resumes to get interviews.
- •Field-specific section Petroleum
- •Reserves
- •Reserves Estimation
- •Bibliography
- •Web-sources
- •Recommended sources
- •Useful phrases
- •English for Specific Purposes
- •625003, Г. Тюмень, ул. Семакова 10
Unit 3. Becoming a young researcher
“It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.” Serge Haroche
Task 1. Scan the text “Originality of a Dissertation” in Task 5 for the highlighted words and create a mini-glossary1 on the topic.
Task 2. Match the sentence parts to make definitions.
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Task 3. Give the Russian equivalents to the words and phrases below.
Tremendously, an unidentified gap, inconsistency, to apply critical thinking, inferences, prudent, a theoretical approach, to bring in a concept, an academic field, a research design, analytical tools, cross-sectional, an experimental design, a longitudinal design, predominantly, convincingly, to make a contribution, distinctive.
Task 4. Match the words with the similar meaning.
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a. mainstream (adj) |
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b. contrary (adj) |
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c. strivings (n) |
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d. creative (adj) |
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e. attempt (n) |
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f. certainty (n) |
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g. impressive (adj) |
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h. crack (n) |
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i. typical (adj) |
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j. sensible (adj) |
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k. conclusion (n) |
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l. donation (n) |
Task 5. Read the text “Originality of a Dissertation” and divide it into 5 logical parts.