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A Practical Sharing of
Paper Submission to
Journals
期刊投稿 實務分享
Dept. of Mold and Die Engineering, NKUAS
楊勝安教授（國立高雄應用科技大學 模具工程系 系主任）
Outline
1
Introduction
2
Tips-1~5
3
My Experience
4
Concluding Remarks
Introduction
想達高瞻遠矚,
就必須站上巨人肩膀
The dwarf sees farther than the giant
when he has the giant’s
shoulder to mount on.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Friend(1828)
TIPS
Tips on polishing your Technical English Writing
搜尋閱讀(Search)
收集整理(Collect)
練習寫作(Practice)
Tip 1
Using Tools for Learning Technical English
1
Search and collect the
related articles (via
SDOS, EI,…)
2
Use websites from
search engines, MSN,
Google and Yahoo
3
Ex: http://encarta.msn.com/
Tip 2
 Entering the Writing Center in US
universities, Ex: Purdue
 Reading technical English writing
references
1. Writing Up Research: Pearson
Education Taiwan Ltd. by Robert
Weisslerg; Suzanne Buker(書林書局代理)
2. Academic writing for graduate
students:(文鶴出版社)
The University of Michigan Press
Tip 3
Imitating good
examples of those
who have great
skills by collecting
good sentence
patterns from Ejournals, such as
SDOS, EI, …etc.
Abstract
Introduction
Method
Modeling
Result
Discussion
Conclusion
Tip 4
Suggesting your
graduate students to
take “Technical
English Writing”
course.
EE
MDE
Tip 5
 Attending Workshop on Technical
English Writing (MDE and CHME
departments have organized one
before)
organized
CHME
MDE
My Experience
Sharing My Experience of Technical
English Writing: 3 C Principles
Correct
Clear
Concise
My Experience
4
Unclear pronouns
must be avoided,
such as, it, this,
they,…
3
2
1
Correct Verb
Tense
Correct
Sentence Voice
Effective Verb
instead of
Noun Phrase
(As minimum
as possible)
1. Correct Verb Tense
正確動詞時態：
 “提到”前人的研究成果的陳述時，關於成果內
容為一般共同可接受的學理，必須採現在式。
 特定點動作例如“描述”(describe, present),或
“探討”(deal with, investigate), 等採過去式。
Author+ Reference number or date+ verb of
report( past tense)+ that +Findings (Present
tense)
Curie [1] showed that aluminum in seawater is
regulated by a thermodynamic balance.
2a. Choosing between active
and passive voice
. The passive voice:
The actor is not really important but the
process or principle being described is
of ultimate importance.
The active voice:
The actor is more important than the
process or principle being described.
2b. The cases using Active Voice
A process description employs verbs
that indicate a change of state, such as
expand, rise, cool, and form.
Most metals expand and contract with
variations in temperature.
Intransitive verbs:
stem from, originate (in), become
Research terms, such as “The study”,
“The project”, “The report”, “The paper”
use the active voice.
The paper aims to investigate the effect of X
on Y.
2c. Some transitive verbs can not be
transformed into passive constructions.
Have
Resemble= look like
 Equal
 Agree with
 Mean
 Contain= Comprise
 Hold
 Lack
 Suit=Fit
3a. Effective Verbs
要簡潔有力
 請使用單一字的動詞，避免口頭常用的動詞+
介系詞的形式，例如：
figure out --> determine
go up to --> reach
keep up --> maintain
go down --> decrease
make up --> constitute
3b. Effective Verbs
避免使用名詞表示動作，直接用單一字動詞
Draw a conclusion --> conclude
Make an analysis --> analyze
Make a consideration --> consider
Perform a simulation -->Simulate
Conduct an investigation -->
Investigate
4a. Skills to write clearly
Avoid using unclear pronouns: it,
this, that, these, they.
use → “ This/these + noun” to join
ideas together.
According to a recent survey, 26% of all
American adults, down from 38% thirty
years ago, now smoke. This drop can be
partly attributed to the mounting evidence
linking smoking and fatal disease, such as
cancer.
4b. Skills for writing concisely
Reduce the relatives clause into
prepositional phrase:
1. S+Be/V +(N1)+which has +N2.
→ S+Be/V+(N1)+with +N2.
2. S+Be/V +(N1)+that is preposition
+N2.
→ S+Be/V+(N1)+ preposition +N2
4c. Skills for writing concisely
Reduce the clause into participle
phrase:
A current is sent through the material;
therefore, the electrons are polarized.
→ A current is sent through the material,
(thus) polarizing the electrons.
Prices rise; thus, the chance of
hyperinflation increases.
→Prices rise, thus increasing the chance of
hyperinflation.
5. Dangling Modifier:
Common mistake should be avoided
句首的不定詞片語或分詞構句中主詞要與主要子句主
詞一致.
1. To calculate the temperature, the energy
balance equation should be used.
--> To calculate the temperature, we should
use the energy balance equation.
2. Based on the energy balance, we can
calculate the temperature.
Based on the energy balance, the temperature
can be calculated.
On the basis of the energy balance, we can
calculate the temperature.
Concluding Remarks
科技論文寫作:簡潔通則
盡量用最少的單字表示一個句子。
能用單字表示，就不要用片語，
能用片語表示，就不要用子句，
能用簡單句表示，就不要用複合句。