Unit One Ph.D.Program 1
Warm-Up 1
Text How to Be a Good Ph.D.Student 2
Further Reading Guide for Ph.D.Students Aiming for a Successful Career in Science 14
Translation Appreciation and Practice Of Studies 27
Academic Writing How to Write Your First Research Paper(1) 29
Unit Two University Education 39
Warm-Up 39
Text The Idea of a University 40
Further Reading General Education at Harvard College 50
Translation Appreciation and Practice The Idea of a University 58
Academic Writing How to Write Your First Research Paper(2) 61
Unit Three Scientific Research 70
Warm-Up 70
Text The Nature of Scientific Reasoning 71
Further Reading The Joys of Research 81
Translation Appreciation and Practice The Wealth of Nations 89
Academic Writing The Science of Scientific Writing(1) 91
Unit Four Intellectual Innovation 103
Warm-Up 103
Text Darwin's Middle Road 104
Further Reading Those Crazy Ideas 116
Translation Appreciation and Practice Rip Van Winkle 132
Academic Writing The Science of Scientific Writing(2) 135
Unit Five Academic Writing 148
Warm-Up 148
Text What Is a Scientific Paper? 149
Further Reading Two Aspects of Japanese Sentence Final Expressions in Relation to Gender:Expressing Modality and Constructing Stereotypes 159
Translation Appreciation and Practice A Brief History of Time:From the Big Bang to Black Holes 171
Academic Writing An Introduction to On-line Corpora in Academic Writing(1) 173
Unit Six Medical Ethics 180
Warm-Up 180
Text The Groningen Protocol—Euthanasia in Severely Ill Newborns 181
Further Reading Active and Passive Euthanasia 192
Translation Appreciation and Practice Silent Spring 204
Academic Writing An Introduction to On-line Corpora in Academic Writing(2) 206
Unit Seven Cultural Conflict 214
Warm-Up 214
Text The Many Faces of the Future—Why We'll Never Have a Universal Civilization? 215
Further Reading Civilizational Confinement 227
Translation Appreciation and Practice Letter to Lord Chesterfield 239
Academic Writing Style 242
Unit Eight Academic Honesty 256
Warm-Up 256
Text Plagiarism:The Emergence of a Literary Concept 257
Further Reading How Science Goes Wrong?Scientific Research Has Changed the World.Now It Needs to Change Itself 271
Translation Appreciation and Practice The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 278
Academic Writing Plagiarism 282