Reflections on the Development of Scientific English Writing Based on New Liberal Arts Thinking

College of Foreign Languages,Jiamusi University,Jiamusi,China Email:pattie1995@126.com

WU Yumei

College of Materiala Science and Engineering,Jiamusi University,Jiamusi,China Email:23561310@qq.com

ZHANG Yunlong

College of Foreign Languages,Jiamusi University,Jiamusi,China Email:jmsdxzhang@126.com

ZHENG Shuming

College of Foreign Languages,Harbin Institute of Technology,Harbin,China Email：zhengshuming@hit.edu.cn

ZHOU Jianjun

College of Foreign Languages,Jiamusi University,Jiamusi,China Email:310410588@qq.com

TANG Mo

College of Foreign Languages,Jiamusi University,Jiamusi,China Email:461865121@qq.com

JING Lihua

College of Foreign Languages,Jiamusi University,Jiamusi,China Email:Jinglh2005@sina.com

[Abstract]As an important part of the construction of“The Four New”by the Ministry of Education,the concept of“new liberal arts”was put forward in 2018 and officially launched in 2019.Mr.Wu Yan announced“Declaration of new arts construction”on the Conference of the Construction of New Liberal Arts in Weihai Shandong on November 3rd,2020.New Liberal Arts has entered the stage of all-round implementation.Based on this new situation,in this paper,the subject“l(fā)anding”investigation was carried out based on the development of Scientific English Writing about the new liberal arts.The new problems in the development of New Liberal Arts scientific English is explored.The concrete solving methods and development trend in the new period are considered.Traditional barriers among Science,Engineering,and Arts are looking forward to be broken through in the field of Scientific English Writing.

[Keywords]New liberal arts;Scientific English Writing;Break through discipline barriers;Operating Mode

Research Background and Academic Trends

The concept of“New Liberal Arts”was first proposed in 2018 at the meeting of the Industry-university Cooperation education Program of the Ministry of Education,as an important part of the“Four new”construction of the Ministry of Education.In 2019,“Six Excellence and one Top-notch”Plan 2.0 jointly launched by the Ministry of Education and 13 other departments was officially launched and entered the policy implementation stage.On September 18,2020,the“Forum of New Liberal Arts and Foreign Language Education Masters”was held by Collage of Foreign Languages of Shandong University.On November 3,2020,the New Liberal Arts Construction Conference sponsored by the New Liberal Arts Construction Working Group of the Ministry of Education was held in Weihai(Wu,2020).

New Liberal Arts are needed to build a powerful country in higher education.The integrated development of liberal education needs new liberal arts.The tide of new science and technology and industrial revolution is surging forward,and social problems are becoming increasingly comprehensive and complicated.To cope with new changes and solve complex problems,interdisciplinary knowledge integration is in urgent need.To promote integrated development is an inevitable choice for the construction of new liberal arts.It is imperative to further break the barriers between disciplines and specialties,promote the deep integration between liberal arts majors,the cross integration between liberal arts and science,agriculture,medicine,integrate modern information technology(Gao,2020,pp.65-71).

Overview of New Liberal Arts Scientific English Writing

Concepts and Language features of Scientific English

Scientific English mainly refers to all written and spoken English materials of natural science and engineering technology,which are mainly expressed in scientific works,papers,textbooks,scientific reports,academic lectures,scientific and technological films,scientific and technological news reports,etc.SCI for high-end natural science academic papers in professional fields is a typical scientific and technological English writing.In terms of grammatical structure,the use of techniques such as passive sentence pattern,professional vocabulary expression,nominalization,tense expression and subjunctive mood,and the use of IT as the formal subject are the unique linguistic features of scientific English.Stylistically it is an expository text without emotional thinking.The emergence of Scientific English is the basic requirement of the development of the times and social progress.(Ma,2020,pp.154-155).

The Role and Significance of Scientific English Writing now

Scientific English writing is an essential part of important capacity requirements for scientific researchers during the foreign academic exchanges.The investigated results were published in the international academic journals by means of this approach.so it can achieve the purpose of communicating with foreign scholars.The quality and quantity of investigated results in international authoritative journal was became the measure of the academic level for the academic research organizations at home and abroad.While Scientific English reflected the new development and innovation in the field of science and technology,also it recorded all the natural scientific achievements of human beings and their cognition of the world.In order to expound these advances and theories accurately and scientifically,scientists and scientists have made a lot of efforts.With the deepening of global economic integration,international cooperation and exchanges are increasingly close and the role of scientific and technological information exchange in the international community are obviously strengthened.Under this background,scientific and technological English writing is more prominent in its importance(Quan,2020,pp.1-14).

Factors affecting Scientific English writing

Due to the different characteristics of language,culture,environment and national customs,it is difficult for language expression to be completely corresponding.At this time,writers should use a variety of writing methods to improve writing quality,so that readers can better understand the content of the text.The author should adopt the grammatical structures and expressions styles commonly used in English writing possibly,then it follows the characteristics of English language and adopts different writing methods flexibly,so as to serve the purpose of writing.In the process of writing English for science and technology,the writer will often encounter a large number of English terms and proper nouns.Only when the writer has a solid writing foundation,so he can thoroughly master the professional knowledge.Then he can express accurately and fluently.Under the circumstances,the authors could not fall into the jargon or terminology of professional circles and make the English writing more interesting.So it can reach the scientific height and connotation depth of scientific English writing.At present,many countries in the world have set up scientific English research institutes and set up relevant majors in universities.In the development stage of new liberal arts,how should our scientific English writing move forward in china? This problem deserves our deep thinking.(Jiang,2019.pp.3-6)

The Construction of New Liberal Arts Scientific English Writing

Breaking through the barriers of Science and Arts and integrating disciplines

English professionals have the advantages in the forefront of scientific English.At present,English writing for science and technology focuses on the field of foreign language and professional language.The former focuses on the linguistic study of writing style,while the latter focuses on the expression of research content.If the two aspects are combined together,the practical effect of English writing for science and technology will surely be promoted to a new height.(Xiu,2019,pp.70-72).The researchers in both fields cooperate with each other to truly break through disciplinary barriers.Foreign language researchers do not give up their research direction and specialty.At the same time they participate in scientific study and research.But this case was quite a big challenge for foreign researchers.Based on this idea,English language learners should make great efforts to learn scientific professional knowledge and make up for the lack of scientific and technological academic level.Actually foreign language workers have more advantages in relatively long time exposure to the forefront of scientific development.So they can quickly understand the core content of the latest scientific articles.If people with relevant science and engineering backgrounds take part in translation and writing together,then the level of scientific writing will be raised to a new level and the latest trends of scientific articles will be studied thoroughly.Institute of technology professionals and a foreign language professionals collaborate together,so it starts to study the specific science knowledge.Scientific research level will implement process from the quantitative to qualitative changes.So it can achieve a higher level of scientific research results quickly in a certain scientific field.It could enhance the core competition of the domestic scientific research institutions and better service to the field of scientific research in China.(Wu,2020,pp.5-9;Wang,2011,p.14)

Multi-mode Teaching

Under the background of 5G,the Internet of things(IOT),cloud computing,artificial intelligence,block chain group of intelligent technologies,the introduction of machine is benefit to help writing.(Zhang,2020,pp.1-4).Machine learning related writing software operation,such as TRADOS,fire cloud translation of guest,et al.Mixed online and offline teaching are carried on.Engineering glossary and text corpus of mechanical,chemical,construction,communication and other majors should be set up,and new development of the latest China hownet are introduced into a certain field.So it is benefit to achieve a new category of professionals in science and technology cooperation under the advantages of English major(Wu,2020,pp.5-9).

A practical point of view

English teachers should exploit the regional advantages,existing condition of colleges and universities,and their own working and learning environment to find the development direction of New Liberal Arts Scientific English writing.And Explore the connotation and extension of scientific English writing.We will surely find the most suitable point,so as to further study and improve it continuously(Zhu,2019,pp.4-8).

Establish the operating mode of New Liberal Arts Scientific English Writing

In-depth cooperation will be carried out by the teachers to break through the barriers among Arts and Sciences and Engineering so as to improve effectiveness(Yang,2019,p.6).The following are the exact measures:

a.Teachers should be encouraged to participate the construction of New Liberal Arts through subject application,interdisciplinary academic exchanging and interdisciplinary teaching.

b.Interdisciplinary education resources should be extended and expanded to break the existing barriers in the admission of master's and doctor's degree students,especially those in science and engineering majors.

c.Through the cooperation and integration of resources,a new type of cooperative teaching and research office is established.

d.In the context of“the Internet +”professional model,we will build a new network platform for cultural and scientific cooperation.

e.For industries,establish a green channel for talent exchange and exchange,and introduce senior industry talents and experts with rich practical experience into the regular teaching team.Actively strive to build the cooperation model of double-qualified talents.

New Teaching Mode of New Liberal Arts Scientific English Writing

New Teaching Objects and Course Ownership

Due to the particularity of Scientific English Writing,under the background of new liberal Arts,the teaching objects of this course can be Science,Engineering students and English majors.The course can be conducted under the professional English course,the College English course and for the English Major.

New Contents of Teaching

Download the latest and most forward-looking scientific research papers or the latest published scientific works as the teaching content on CnKI or other national standard platforms,instead of using old scientific papers to teach students English Scientific Writing.Let students enter the forefront at the beginning of learning,stimulate interest in learning,improve the academic level.Having students learn the latest,most commonly accepted writing procedures and requirements can actually improve their academic performance.This requires teachers majoring in English,Science and Engineering to work together to select materials,analyze and form the teaching contents.These must be completed in the shortest possible time because of the timeliness of the articles and the immediacy of the lectures.This is a new way for teachers of Arts,Science and Engineering to cooperate.With the help of the Internet+platform,it can be completed with short time.Teachers of English majors can quickly grasp the overall layout and contents of articles,writing characteristics and so on.Teachers of Science and Engineering majors can provide deeper theoretical analysis support from the perspective of professional knowledge.This is the advantage of the Internet platform,a new model that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.At the same time,it not only gives full play to the professional expertise of the teachers of Art,Science and Engineering,but also stimulates their challenge and creativity.Make the teaching of the subject "live",make the subject more meaningful,teachers more energetic and students more powerful.

The latest application of online and offline mixed teaching

Break through the traditional teaching mode of one teacher per class.We can have MOOCS and flip classes,so why can't we teach online multi-disciplinary teachers in real time? Under Internet +,teachers of Arts,Sciences and Engineering can distribute the contents to students before class ,and both teachers and students prepare for class at the same time.On the requirements of students,not only let students check the words,but to master the general idea of the article.Let them analyze the essence of the content,learn the content before class.During the teaching,professional course teachers can be connected online to complete the teaching together immediately.This is a breakthrough for the existing teaching model,a breakthrough in the tradition of one teacher giving a lesson.

Breakthrough in teaching result evaluation

The curriculum evaluation of traditional English for Scientific English Writing is either the basic concept of the test,or writing an article or a review of English for science and technology,but basically cannot reach the direct publication level.Under the construction of New Liberal Arts,multi-disciplinary cooperation can be realized through Internet+.Enable students learn multi-disciplinary cooperation at the learning stage,so as to achieve a relatively accurate degree at every point of the article.We can encourage the publication of papers in English for Science and technology,and achieve the goal of writing and publishing in English as soon as possible,so this course has practical significance.

Re-establish teacher evaluation mechanism in the field of New Liberal Arts Scientific English Writing research

In the current system,the teacher evaluation of the research on scientific English writing of English majors is still in a relatively backward state.Some teachers or talents of English majors in the universities have made important contributions in a certain sicentific field,read a large number of the latest scientific articles,and some have even taught themselves many courses of the Sicentific major.However,published scientific English articles can not be regarded as teaching and scientific research achievements in the field of English majors.

In the evaluation system of scientific English writing under the context of new liberal arts,such in-depth cooperation in scientific English articles and other teaching and research achievements should be incorporated into the evaluation system of English professionals.It is necessary to break down the liberal arts evaluation barriers of scientific English papers and re-evaluate the results in line with the objective reality.So it can arouse the enthusiasm of Teachers of English majors and promote the construction of New Liberal Arts scientific English writing.

Conclusion

The construction of New Liberal Arts scientific English writing is not a new thing,but from the development of Traditional Chinese scientific English writing.Actively developing new approaches to scientific and technological English writing under the current situation of new liberal arts,based on the overall strategic deployment at the national level,giving full play to the advantage of social resources to make it better serve China's modernization in the new era.

Acknowledgements

Thanks for the support of scientific research operating expenses in Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Education(2019-KYYWF-1408).

*Corresponding author,Zhang Yunlong,Email:JMSDXZHANG@126.COM.