一句英文叙述的表达有很多方式呈现，不过对于专业性非常强的学术论文来说，任何的遣词造句都要遵循一定的规则，有理有据的同时又要读起来足够“高大上”，有些作者也许会有这样的问题“为什么期刊会拒绝我具有足够创新的论文呢”？查尔斯沃思语言润色编辑认为主要有两点原因：

1、The paper was so poorly written and so poorly structured that the editor simply couldn’t fathom its meaning.

2、Editors are human beings: impressed by papers that are short, easy to read, and contain a clear message.

是的，用清晰的逻辑和结构去撰写你的论文，如何措辞？英文母语作者会如何表达呢？查尔斯沃思编辑推荐中国作者利用Academic Phrasebank网站（www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk）提供的丰富学术写作短语及句型来学习撰写学术论文。

Academic Phrasebank 你可以叫它“学术短语库”，类似于我们直接向大家介绍过的《利用网络语料库减少科技论文语言错误》

，该网站由曼彻斯特大学的John Morley博士创建，旨在为作者提供一些学术研究论文写作上的常用句型或短语资源，帮助作者有效的组织语言及内容，且该语言库的内容大多是中性和通用型的短语、例句，作者可放心使用不涉及窃取别人想法。

John Morley

该网站的帮助对象是英语为非母语地区的学术科研作者，即便如此，一些母语为英语的科研作者也会利用这个资源。根据该网站对外的数据统计，大部分用户是母语为英语的作者，当然，这一数据可能也说明该资源网站没有得到有效的推广，许多母语非英语作者知道的比较少。

Academic Phrasebank网站由Introducing work、referring to sources、describing methods、discussing findings以及writing conclusions五个部分组成，每个版块都有详细的指导及例句，如在Introducing work菜单下，点击“Establishing the importance of the topic for the discipline”超链接会列出在确定描述研究重要性的例句：

A key aspect of X is …
X is of interest because …
X is a classic problem in …
A primary concern of X is …
X is a dominant feature of …
X is an important aspect of …
X is a fundamental property of …
The concepts of X and Y are central to …
X is at the heart of our understanding of …
Investigating X is a continuing concern within …
X is a major area of interest within the field of …
X has been studied by many researchers using …
X has been an object of research since the 1960s.
X has been the subject of many classic studies in …
X has been instrumental in our understanding of …
The theory of X provides a useful account of how …
Central to the entire discipline of X is the concept of …
X is an increasingly important area in applied linguistics.
The issue of X has received considerable critical attention.
X has long been a question of great interest in a wide range of fields.

该网站的短语都来源于已发表的母语为英语的学术论文，它们最初由100篇曼彻斯特大学的硕士研究论文构成，不过，随着时间的推移，涉及更广阔学科的论文资源正在被逐渐纳入其中。

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