An Analysis of Common Mistakes Seen in Scientific Writing in English by Chinese Biomedical Students

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10.2991/sschd-16.2016.82How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Scientific writing, Medical terminology, Binomenial nomenclature, Model organism.

Abstract

To improve the writing ability on scientific papers for biomedical students, and meet the demand of academic communication in their future career, we launched a course for the final year students of laboratory medicine, who had returned from clinical internship, and were drafting their baccalaureate degree thesis. The medical periodicals relevant to the study field of the students were introduced, and the English abstracts of the students' thesis were examined. During the teaching, mistakes frequently made have been identified. These included the information asymmetry in bilingual expression, the inappropriate use of non-medical terms in the scientific papers, and the incorrect font of binomen of organisms. The problems should be solved with the English teaching at universities together with the introduction of bilingual instruction . Meanwhile the amendment of the nomenclature in species should be paid attention to by scientific workers, and a life time learning is proposed to our students.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiang-ning Zhang
AU  - Bi-ying Zhang
AU  - Gan Hou
AU  - Ruo-lin Zhang
PY  - 2015/12
DA  - 2015/12
TI  - An Analysis of Common Mistakes Seen in Scientific Writing in English by Chinese Biomedical Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 400
EP  - 405
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/sschd-16.2016.82
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