ABSTRACTS FOR COMMUNICATION - SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATION

Представление проектов рекомендуется проводить в виде публичной защиты на конкурсе студенческих научно-исследовательских работ. Для этого:

1) подготовьте список тем, актуальных в той предметной области, в которой специализируются студенты (логистика, ИТ, управление процессами перевозок и т.п.);

2) распределите студентов по мини-группам (3-4 человека);

3) обозначьте контрольные точки для проверки промежуточных результатов по подготовке проектов: тезисы доклада, визуальная поддержка доклада, полный текст доклада;

4) организуйте репетицию выступлений (при необходимости).

Перед началом изучения учебного материала по данному разделу курса проведите со студентами разъяснительную беседу о том, какое место занимает научно-исследовательская деятельность в университетском образовании. Сделайте акцент на том, что каждый студент университета должен заниматься такой деятельностью, она входит в блок самостоятельной работы студента и позволяет развивать большинство компетенций, перечисленных в государственных образовательных стандартах по всем направлениям обучения.

UNIT 1. ABSTRACTS FOR COMMUNICATION

Start-up

In which country would to respond a compliment “Thank you. I have work hard for it” be considered very prideful?

a) China.

Exercise 1, 2. Tongue twisters to be remembered:

Предложите студентам прослушать два раза запись скороговорок, затем дважды произнесите их вместе с диктором и, наконец, произнесите их самостоятельно хором.

(1) Rory the warrior (воин) and Roger the worrier (беспокойный, тревожащийся человек) were reared [пэ] возводить, сооружать wrongly in a rural brewery ['bru:ərι] сельский пивоваренный завод.

(2) How many berries could a bare berrycarry, if a bare berry could carryberries?

Well they can't carry berries

(which could make you very wary ['wεərι] осторожный)

but a bare berry carried is more scary['skεərι] жуткий, ужасный!

Exercise 3. Give appropriate translation to the proverbs and sayings. Remember three of them:

Попросите студентов перевести пословицы на русский язык и подобрать эквивалентные пословицы в русской культуре.

1. A cat in gloves catches no mice. - Без труда не вынешь рыбку из пруда. (пословица)

2. All things are difficult before they are easy. - Глаза боятся, а руки делают / Лиха беда начало. (пословица)

3. Learning is like a boundless sea, only diligence can reach the shore. -Ученье подобно бескрайнему морю, и лишь прилежание сможет достигнуть берега. (высказывание)

4. When the pupil is ready to learn, the teacher will appear. When the pupil is ready to learn, the teacher will appear.-Учитель появится лишь тогда, когда ученик будет готов. (высказывание)

5. Ignorance killed the cat. Curiosity was framed. - Кошку убило невежество. Любопытство обвинили ложно. (высказывание)

Exersice 5. Choose the best way to say these numbers and dates (sometimes more than one way is possible). Then listen and check.

23.56 b - twenty-three point six 10,001 b - ten thousand and one

£ 63.30 b - sixty-three pounds and thirty pence (or d-sixty-three pounds thirty)

5,400,342 - five million, four hundred thousand, three hundred and forty-two € 45,638 - forty-five thousand, six hundred and thirty-eight euro

1999 the year - nineteen ninety-nine (or the phone number, room number, one nine nine nine)

2003 the phone number, room number - two double oh three (or the year: two thousand and three)

Exercise 6. Listen to the interviews. Write down the telephone numbers you hear.

area code 415 221 2114; area code 415 512 7439; 447 3952; 347 1919; 649 46 83; 213 465 0400

Lead-in

Подготовка тезисов доклада является важным этапом научно-исследовательской деятельности студентов. Обратите внимание студентов на следующее:

1. Тезисы - это письменная научная работа. Она предполагает анализ информации (литературы) по выбранной теме, определение актуальности, проблемы и цели исследования.

2. Википедия, безымянные сайты, социальные сети и т.п. не являются достоверными источниками информации.

3. Тезисы, как правило, публикуются до проведения публичного мероприятия, чтобы его участники могли ознакомиться с основным содержанием доклада заранее.

4. Тезисы оформляются строго в соответствии с требованием организаторов публичного мероприятия.

5. Тезисы имеют типовую структуру.

6. Тезисы пишутся особым - научным - стилем. В тезисах используются типовые фразы (клише).

7. Английский язык, который Вы используете для написания тезисов, должен быть безупречным с точки зрения лексики и грамматики. Перевод с русского языка на английский с помощью непрофессиональных машинных переводчиков не допускается.

Exercise 7. What do you think an abstract for project/ conference communication is?

A.

Exercise 8. Discuss the questions about a conference presentation. Then read the passage below to check your answers:

1. Why do you need to write an abstract for communication before speaking at a conference? - To tell the audience what you are going to say, and interest people in coming to hear you say it.

2. How will you interest the audience in hearing your ideas? - To interest the audience in hearing you say means that you:

1. Devisea title that is descriptive and inviting.

2. Findwords that are accessible to both specialists and non-specialists.

3. Are concise - your abstract should be no more than 1 page or 250 words.

4. Planyour abstract according to its basic outline.

5. Edityour abstract carefully.

6. Ensurethe abstract conforms to the “house style” of the conference.

3. What is the most effective way to organise your abstract? - a) Introduction and thesis statement, b) The body of the paper. c) Conclusion.

Exercise 9. Compare the English and Russian texts of the abstract for communication.

1. How many parts can you find in each passage? - 3

2. What cliches are used:

a) to introduce the problem:... explains our interest in the issue of the research. Here we are trying to answer whether. To answer the question let us clarify.

b) to show links between the logical parts: As the next step, as per three criteria:, In the end...

c) to come to the conclusion: As we can see,...

Exercise 10. Match the English clichės with their Russian equivalents.

1 e

2 j

3 i

4 g

5 b

6 a

7 f

8 d

9 c

10 h

Exercise 11. Read the abstract for communication and fill in the gaps with the clichės below the passage. Give their Russian equivalents.

1	c	Анализ проблемы
2	e	помогает понять
3	b	В числе основных задач
4	d	следующие
5	a	будет рассмотрено далее
6	h	Аналогично,
7	f	Наконец,
8	g	В заключение необходимо отметить, что
9	i	например

Exercise 12. In pairs, discuss the following questions. Then listen to David Tailor explaining how to write an abstract and check your answers.

1. What is the goal of writing an abstract? - Your goal in writing an abstract is literally to abstract or extract the essential information from the things that you read.

2. What do you need to write a good abstract? - To analyze the things that you read, so that you can extract or abstract from them; to define the experimental methods that the experimenter used to conduct the experiment; to describe the results; to draw the conclusion; to write an abstract using a very good English

3. What is a descriptive abstract? - That's not what you're writing, that's what you sometimes see in shortened abstracts in bibliographic databases.

4. What is an informative abstract? - What you're going to be writing is the informative abstract. The informative abstracting - an APA - is about two hundred fifty words long is written in a block paragraph and that means no intention.

5. Why mustn’t your supervisor be the second person who reads your abstract? - Psychologically it’s impossible for you to proofread your own work accurately.

Transcript Part III. Unit 1

Hi, I am David Tailor, your coach. And today we're going to talk about writing this thing right here - the abstract.

The abstract is exactly what it says. Your goal in writing an abstract is literally to abstract or extract the essential information from the things that you read.

Now your goal in this assignment number one - Writing the abstract - has two folds.

Goal number one is to analyze the things that you read, so that you can extract or abstract from them. There are four essential ingredients. In those four essential ingredients are:

Number one’s the purpose (an objective); the faces, the goal, the reason for being, the overall point, the gest, the colonel, the purpose and objective being able to abstract it and express in one semantogram.

Next thing you're going to be looking for is the methods that that the scholar use to study his or her subject or perhaps the experimental methods that the experimenter used to conduct the experiment.

The third thing you're going to look for is the results. In other words what did that scholar find when he or she studied, what did that researcher find when he or she conducted that experiment.

And then the fourth thing is their conclusions or inferences drawn by that scholar or that researcher based upon his or her study and experiment.

So you're going to find those four things in the article that you're going to read and you're going to express them in a clear concise well-written abstract.

The second goal is of course to practice that writing because you're going to be writing as well as reading abstracts throughout your graduate career here at the USA.

Now to help you with this assignment I want to take you to our classroom and show you some of the materials that I want you to make sure that you take a look at.

The first thing I want you to take a look at is in the conferences.

In the second thread (thread [θred] - шаг, подсказка) I have posted three links for you. And I want you to take a look particularly at this link right here from the University of Mississippi Writing Center. When you go there you're gonna find that they describe two kinds of abstract.

The descriptive abstract is that I want in a two sentence summary. That's not what you're writing, that's what you sometimes see in shortened abstracts in bibliographic databases.

What you're going to be writing is the informative abstract.

The informative abstracting - an APA - is about two hundred fifty words long is written in a block paragraph and that means no intention. It's a small but important detail because as a graduate student as a researcher you have to establish your credibility by paying attention to details. And one of the details I want to pay attention to is block paragraphing - no intention in the abstract.

So take a look at that website from the University of Mississippi. You'll also see a list here, a four other things to look at. And believe me if you simply wright one or two or three sentences about each of those things right there put those sentences together with transitions you'll have a great abstract. Something else that I've posted for you in the classroom if you look over the contents section here is the actual article that you're going to abstract. It's called ‘Workplace communication’. It's a big pdf but scroll down and look at this information at the bottom of the page. This is the information that you're going to use to write your citation - your APA reference citation.

Now I want you to use format number one journal with a DOI for your reference citation format and you can find that in your APA 6^th edition style manual.

One least thing that I want to look at this is also in our content section. I have given you full assignment instructions just like the ones in this video. But more importantly right here, I have given you a model or a template to follow.

Now listen, whenever a teacher or supervisor gives you a model or template to follow, whether it's a memo to employees or an employer evaluation template, you need to follow that template exactly because that's what the supervisor or that's what the teacher wants back is that templates.

Notice your template here verses the title of your assignment, then comes your reference citation following that reference format number one journal with idea why. Then come to two hundred and fifty word block paragraph with that as well written and concise.

One more last point to let you go: Never be or never let your supervisor or your teacher be the second person to read something you have written. You are always the first person in between you and that person doing the evaluating - the supervisor or the teacher. Put somebody else to help you proofread(делать корректуру, корректировать). Never let the teacher of the supervisor sees it after you, because, listen, it is one hundred percent impossible for foreigners to one hundred percent proofread their own work accurately. You just can't do it. Psychologically it’s impossible for you to proofread your own work accurately. Put somebody in between yourself and the teacher and the supervisor, have them read what you've written, have them read that aloud and just circle the things that they have questions about. You do that and I guarantee that your writing will improve quite a bit.

Okay as usual if you had any questions about this assignment don't hesitate to contact me.

Exercise 13. Read the passage and explain the difference between paragraphs of description; paragraphs of process; paragraphs of analysis and paragraphs of comparison.

Выполнение этого упражнения можно организовать в виде общего обсуждения. Предоставьте студентам время (5-7 минут), чтобы прочитать и понять текст, затем мотивируйте их к дискуссии.

Answer the question: Is it possible to combine several types of paragraphs in your abstract for finding the best way to express your ideas? - Yes.

Exercise 14. Choose a project theme. Write an abstract for communication. The clichės in Appendix 6 may help.

Выполнение этого упражнения предполагает 1) выбор темы будущего доклада и 2) написание тезисов доклада.

Распределите студентов в проектные группы по 3-4 человека. Темы докладов могут быть выбраны из предложенного преподавателем списка или сформулированы студентами самостоятельно.

Обратите внимание студентов на информацию в Приложении 6 к Практикуму, где отражены требования к структуре тезисов и дан набор соответствующих каждому разделу тезисов клише.

Попросите студентов добавить в тезисы список литературы минимум из двух англоязычных источников, сноски на которые нужно дать в квадратных скобках по тексту тезисов. Требования к оформлению списка литературы - на Ваш выбор. Также можно воспользоваться приведенным ниже образцом оформления тезисов:

Ivanova M.I.

(Information Technologies in Business Faculty, Logistics and Supply Chain Management Programme)

PROBLEMS OF DRY PORTS

(АКТУАЛЬНОСТЬ) Currently, there is an active introduction of dry ports in the world. It is obvious that dry ports can significantly improve the cargo transportation system of a country. The most evident benefit is that in a dry port container handling costs should be lower in as much as the land and the labor cost is lower.

(ПРОБЛЕМА) However, with substantial benefits, there are some problems. Such problems should be settled in order to increase the effectiveness of cargo transportation.

(ОСНОВНАЯ ЧАСТЬ) Briefly, the dry port concept is revealed in the following definition. A dry port is an intermodal terminal situated in the hinterland servicing a region connected with one or several ports by rail and/or road transport and is offering specialized services between the dry port and the overseas destinations [1]. Normally the dry port is container-oriented and supplies all logistics facilities, which are needed for shipping and forwarding agents in a port. Despite the significant advantages of using dry ports, there are some unresolved issues. Having examined the literature on dry ports, it was found that only a few authors study the problems of dry ports. In particular, a detailed overview of these problems is introduced in India and Canada [2]. For example, Canadian researchers have identified a facility layout problem and location-service design problems. The above stated problems could be identified as strategic problems of dry ports. Also, there are a number of tactical problems such as size of the available fleet, the capacity of each shuttle and the tactical planning problem [3].

(ВЫВОД) Thus, we can conclude that to improve the performance of dry ports it is necessary to identify and settle a number of specific problems.

References:

1. Arbatov A. A. Source of Mineral and Raw Materials of a Country // The Economist. 2000. № 2. P. 15.

2. Andrianov V. D. World Energy Sector and Energy Sector in Russia // The Economist. 2001. № 2. P. 33-38.

3. Trudov О. Two Sides of Transportation Problem // Nezavisimaya Gazeta. 15.10.2013.

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Supervisor - Cand. of Sc. (Education), Associate Professor Volegzhanina I.S.

Данные для оформления статьи из Интернета:

(Ф.И.О. автора или авторов). (название) (выходные данные, если есть). (ссылка доступа) (дата доступа).

Так должна выглядеть запись на английском языке:

1. Smith J., Way O. Studentsand E-learning. Social Sciences 12 (2009): 78-93. URL: http://www.weirdscience.org/artides/idM212 (accessed February 21, 2010).

2. Naweed A., Hockey G.R.J., Clarke S.D. Designing simulator tools for rail research: The case study of a train driving microworld. Applied Ergonomics 44 (2013): 445-454. URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/apergo (accessed October 15, 2014).

Exercise 15. Evaluate your abstract.

Перед сдачей тезисов на проверку преподавателю попросите студентов провести самопроверку и взаимную проверку подготовленных текстов, ответив на вопросы в таблице Editing checklist. При необходимости предоставьте студентам время, чтобы внести необходимые исправления.

Дополнительное задание см. в Приложении 7