評論
打印
Writing experiental reports
寫實驗報告
Good morning, everyone. Today we'll discuss some preliminaries concerning how to write experimental reports.
大家早上好。今天我們將討論寫實驗報告的基本要點。
When you first signed up for a course in university, like a psychology course, chances are that you didn't really expect what was coming in your study;
大學里第一次選課的時候，比如心理學課，你可能不知道這門課會給你帶來什么；
particularly, the course emphasis on methodology and statistics.
尤其是強調方法論和統計學的課程。
For a few of you, this may have come as a pleasant surprise, provided that you have already known something about the course.
對于你們中的一小部分人來說，如果你們已經對這門課程有了一些了解，可能會有一個驚喜。
For most, however, I dare say, it will undoubtedly have been a shock to the system.
然而，我敢說，對大多數人來說，這無疑是對系統的沖擊。
No doubt in other parts of your course study, you will read books and journals, examining, critically, models and theories, assumptions and hypotheses put forward by scholars and specialists.
毫無疑問，在課程學習的其他時候，你會閱讀書籍和期刊，批判性地研究學者和專家提出的模型，理論和假設。
My task today is to help you understand some of the important features of experimental reports,
我今天的任務是幫助你理解實驗報告的一些重要特征，
because you will have to write up some kind of report of this nature if your course gives prominence to practical work, especially experimenting.
因為如果你的課程強調實踐，特別是實驗，你必須寫這樣的報告。
Then what is an experimental report?
那么什么是實驗報告呢？
All the report is, really, is the place in which you tell the story of your study, like what you did, why you did it, what you found out in the process and so on.
報告里你要講述學習經歷，比如你做過什么，為什么這樣做，你在過程中發現了什么，等等。
In doing this, you're more like an ancient storyteller,
在這個過程中，你更像是一個古代的講故事者，
whose stories were structured in accordance with widely recognized and long established conventions than a modern novelist who is free to dictate form as well as content.
他們的故事是按照廣為認可的、早已確立的傳統構思的，而不像自由支配形式和內容的現代小說家。
Moreover, like the storyteller of old, although you will invariably be telling your story to someone who knows quite a bit about it already,
而且，就像講故事的人一樣，雖然你總是把故事講給非常了解這個故事的人，
you are expected to present it as if it had never been heard before.
你還是應該把它完整地呈現出來，就好像從沒人聽過這個故事一樣。
This means that you will need to spell out the details and assume little knowledge of the area on the part of your audience.
這意味著你需要詳細說明每個細節，并且假定你的聽眾對這個領域了解很少。
