List of Tables
Table 1 Student exercise about China’s discoveries: Past and Potential 001
Table 2 Student exercise: Focusing possible research topics001
Table 3 Example of revising a language-acquisition topic to research problem 001
Table 4 Adapting research problems use S students to problems for use by Chinese students 002
Table 5 A summary of the characteristics of five genres 004
Table 6 Characteristics of research in the humanities, social sciences and education, applied sciences, and science 036
Table 7 contrasts some of the features of quantitative and qualitative research. 037
Table 8 Elements of the IMRaD model for organizing a research paper 037
Table 9 Matrix for organizing information about students using point by point or block methods 108
Table 10 Common transition phrases and signal words 109
Table 11 Common vocabulary to signal significance, gap, and present work 116
Table 12 Five studies about sweatshops: Author, date, title, claim, and sample quotation 199
Table 13 List of transition or signal phrases 209