Unit 1 Urban Planning 1 Text A Pre-reading tasks 2 Living Lab: Urban Planning Goes Digital in Spanish “Smart City” 3 After-reading check 7 Academic writing 11 Planning essays 11 Writing an explanation essay 13 Text B Urban Resilience for a New Century 15 After-reading check 19 Academic writing 22 Nominalization: moving towards more academic writing 22 Modality: using modality in your writing 25 Critical thinking 26 Unit 2 Education 27 Text A Pre-reading tasks 28 Higher Education, Creative Destruction 29 After-reading check 33 Academic writing 36 Writing an argument essay 36 Text B Free Education: Learning New Lessons 39 After-reading check 45 Academic writing 48 Cohesion through discourse markers: addition, example, deduction and summation 48 Writing a comparison and contrast essay 49 Critical thinking 52 iv 综合学术英语 教程 Unit 3 Science and Technology 55 Pre-reading tasks Text A 56 At 50 Years Old, the Challenge to Keep up with Moore’s Law 57 After-reading check 61 Academic writing 65 Writing a discussion essay 65 Text B The Future of Computing after Moore’s Law 69 After-reading check 73 Academic writing 76 Cohesion through markers that indicate reasons 76 Writing a cause and e ect essay 77 Critical thinking 80 Unit 4 Economy 83 Text A Pre-reading tasks 84 Wage Inequality: A Race between Education and Technology85 After-reading check 88 Academic writing 93 Paragraph formatting 1 93 Text B Is Brexit the Beginning of the End for Globalization95 After-reading check 99 Academic writing 102 Di erences between spoken and written register 102 Critical thinking 106 Unit 5 Academic Dishonesty 107 Text A Pre-reading tasks 108 When “Exciting” Trumps “Honest”, Traditional Academic Journals Encourage Bad Science 109 After-reading check 113 Academic writing 116 v Contents Paragraph formatting 2 116 Text B Innovation: Time to Fix Patents 120 After-reading check 124 Academic writing 127 Interpreting and describing information from tables and gures 127 Critical thinking 130 Unit 6 Medication and Health 131 Pre-reading tasks Text A 132 Is This Antibiotic Apocalypse133 After-reading check 137 Academic writing 141 Writing to propose 141 Text B Promoting Immunology: The Future Is Here 143 After-reading check 146 Academic writing 149 Writing notes to a paper 149 Critical thinking 153 Unit 7 Environment 155 Text A Pre-reading tasks 156 Accelerating Extinction Risk from Climate Change 157 After-reading check 164 Academic writing 168 Writing research reports 168 Text B Australian Community Members’ Attitudes toward Climate Change Impacts at the Great Barrier Reef 172 After-reading check 181 Academic writing 184 Mini-research project 184 Critical thinking 186 Unit 8 Studying Behavior 187 Pre-reading tasks Text A 188 The Linguistic Genius of Babies 189 After-reading check 193 Academic writing 197 Oral presentation skills and oral discourse markers 197 Further oral presentation skills 200 Oral presentation assignment 202 Text B Parental Involvement and Student Achievement 203 After-reading check 205 Academic writing 207 Tutorial participation skills 207 Using visual aids in presentations 209 Giving constructive criticism 211 Critical thinking 212