Chapter One Academic Success
Unit 1 Great Lectures 3
Part One��Read �� Think 5
Kennedy Inaugural Address 5
Part Two��Applied Skills 11
Nine Techniques to Delivering a Speech with Confidence 11
Part Three��Extended Reading 17
The Artist as a Booster of the Human Heart: 17
Tips for Academic Study 20
Top Ten Study Tips 20
Unit 2 Learning, a Lifelong Skill 21
Part One��Read �� Think 23
My MOOC Experience 23
Part Two��Applied Skills 29Chapter One Academic Success
Unit 1 Great Lectures 3
Part One��Read �� Think 5
Kennedy Inaugural Address 5
Part Two��Applied Skills 11
Nine Techniques to Delivering a Speech with Confidence 11
Part Three��Extended Reading 17
The Artist as a Booster of the Human Heart: 17
Tips for Academic Study 20
Top Ten Study Tips 20
Unit 2 Learning, a Lifelong Skill 21
Part One��Read �� Think 23
My MOOC Experience 23
Part Two��Applied Skills 29
Lifelong Learning 29
Part Three��Extended Reading 38
Grandma Moses 38
Tips for Academic Study 41
Concentration Tips 41
Unit 3 Doing Research 43
Part One: Read �� Think 45
Darwin and Natural Selection 45
Part Two��Applied Skills 53
Research Methodology: An Introduction 53
Part Three��Extended Reading 62
Blood, Sweat and Tears: on the Path of Treating Malaria 62
Tips for Academic Study 65
When to study 65
Unit 4 Liberal Education 67
Part One��Read �� Think 69
The Allegory of the Cave 69
Part Two��Applied Skills 76
Who Needs a Liberal Education? 76
Part Three: Extended Reading 84
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings 84
Tips for Academic Study 89
Six Reading Myths 89
Unit 5 Be a Good Writer 91
Part One��Read �� Think 93
Ernest Hemingway and His Work 93
Part Two: Applied Skills 100
The Academic Writing Task 100
Part Three��Extended Reading 107
The Old Man and the Sea 107
Tips for Academic Study 110
Study Formula SQ3R 110
Chapter Two Career Advancement
Unit 6 Understand People 113
Part One��Read �� Think 115
Personalities of Albert and Steve 115
Part Two��Applied Skills 122
Spirit of the Entrepreneur 122
Part Three��Extended Reading 129
Manage Your Boss—8 Ways to “Manage up” 129
Tips for Academic Study 133
Top 7 Tips for Understanding Why People Feel the Way They Do 133
Unit 7 Work with Others 135
Part One��Read �� Think 137
Importance of Teamwork in Organizations 137
Part Two��Applied Skills 143
Five Steps to Building an Organizational Culture 143
Part Three��Extended Reading 157
Twelve Cs for Team Building 157
Tips for Career Advancement 160
Observer Assessment Form for Group Exercises 160
Unit 8 Manage Your Work 163
Part One��Read �� Think 165
The Eisenhower Decision Matrix��How to Distinguish Between Urgent and Important Tasks
and Make Real Progress in Your Life 165
Part Two��Applied Skills 172
How to Communicate Effectively 172
Part Three��Extended Reading 182
Resource Management 182
Tips for Career Advancement 183
Self-management 183
Unit 9 Lead Your Work 185
Part One��Read �� Think 187
What Is Leadership? 187
Part Two��Applied Skills 191
How to Relieve Stress 191
Part Three��Extended Reading 197
What Is Motivation 197
Tips for Career Advancement 200
How to Become a Leader 200
Unit 10 Present Your Work 201
Part One��Read �� Think 203
Public Speaking 203
Part Two��Applied Skills 212
How to Make a Good Presentation 212
Part Three��Extended Reading 222
Fight Your Shyness 222
Tips for Career Advancement 225
The Art of Rhetoric 225
Chapter Three Science �� Technology
Unit 11 Brain �� Neuroscience 231
Part One��Read �� Think 233
Right-and Left-handedness in Humans 233
Part Two��Applied Skills 238
What Happens in the Brain When You Learn a Language? 238
Part Three��Extended Reading 244
A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently 244
Tips for Reading Science Report 247
What Is a Literature Review? 247
Unit 12 Outer Space 249
Part One��Read �� Think 251
The Unearthly Landscapes of Mars: The Red Planet Is No Dead Planet 251
Part Two��Applied Skills 257
Incredible Technology: How to Find Life on Mars 257
Part Three��Extended Reading 262
The Threat from Outer Space 262
New Technology 265
3D Printed Car 265
Unit 13 Computer �� the Internet 267
Part One��Read �� Think 269
The Internet of Things Is Far Bigger Than Anyone Realizes 269
Part Two��Applied Skills 272
Tomorrow‘s Cities: How Big Data Is Changing the World 272
Part Three��Extended Reading 279
What Cloud Computing Really Means 279
Tesla Motors 282
Unit 14 New Energy 283
Part One��Read �� Think 285
The Future Battery 285
Part Two��Applied Skills 289
New Energy Sources and Inventions 289
Part Three��Extended Reading 300
You’ll never ‘be-leaf‘ what makes up this battery 300
Exploring Phosphorene, a Promising New Material 302
Unit 15 Nanotech and Material Sciences 303
Part One��Read �� Think 305
How Nanotechnology Works 305
Part Two��Applied Skills 310
What You Need to Know about Nano-food 310
Part Three��Extended Reading 319
The Future of Nanotechnology 319
Advanced Technology 321
VR Technology 321
References 322��Ϣ