本书在阅读典型热能专业范文的基础上，介绍科技英文写作基础，包括科技英文写作的基本句式，物品大小尺寸和特性的描写方法，比较句型和情态动词在科技英文中的应用和意义，科技英文中常用被动语态的使用；科学定义的描述；科学实验和理论研究中有关系统、方法、过程和结果分析的描写方法，科技英文中有关图、表、数学公式的使用和表述；常用英文文章的写作要点和写作方法，包括英文报告、会议备忘录、项目建议书和杂志科技文章等，讨论科技英文写作过程中应注意和防止的错误，并配以阅读和写作练习。通过学习本书，可以提高学生在科技与工程领域内的英文写作和阅读能力，学会用简单清晰的方法表达科技与工程研究结果，克服“中式英文”，与英文惯用法接轨，为在国际英文杂志上发表专业文章打下定作基础。
本书以实践写作为目的，各单元列有相关主题范文，覆盖目前热能专业的相关主题，写作训练以练习为主，语法简单易掌握。
本书主要作为热能与动力工程专业的本科、研究生教学和自学辅导用书，同时也可作为相关行业工程技术人员的参考用书。
目录
序
前言
Part1：Reading and Writing
Unit1
Reading:Energy
Wwrds and Expressions
Writing Study:Be/Have Sentence
Unit2
Reading:The Greenhouse Effect:Global Warming and Climate Change
Words and Expressions
Writing Study:Present Simple
Unit3
Reading:olive Cake Combustion in a Circulating Fluidized Bed
Words and Expressions
Writing Study:Dimensions
Unit4
Reading:Fluidixed-bed Combustion of Coal
Words and Expressions
Writing Sudy:Qualified Statements of Dimensions and Properties
Unit5
Reading:Comparison of Combustion Technologies
Words and Expressions
Writing Study:Simple Statements of Comparison
Unit6
Reading:Transportation for the 21stCentury
Words and Expressions
Writing Study:Qualified Comparative Statements
Unit7
Reading:Fossil Fuel Boiler Operations
Words and Expressions
Writing Study:ANote on Modals in Scientific English
Unit8
Reading:Type of Gasifiers
Words and Expressions
Writing Study:The Passive
Unit9
Reading:Ignition
Words and Expressions
Writing Study:Relative Clauses
Unit10
Reading:Ignition
Words and Expressions
Writing Study:Relative Clauses
Unit11
Reading:Mechanisms of Heat Transfer
Words and Expressions
Writing Study:General Definitions
Unit12
Reading:Classifying Coal
Words and Expressions
Writing Specific Definitions and Expanded Definitions
Unit13
Reading:Laboratory Study of Trace Element Vaporization from Combustion of
Pulverized Coal
Words and Expressions
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Unit14
Unit15
Part2：Technical Documents Writing
Unit16
Unit17
Unit18
Unit19
Unit20
Unit21
Unit22
Unit23
Appendix1 Writing Error Examples
Appendix2 Normal Mathematical Symbols and Readings
References/Works Cited and Consulted
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