见面课：研究中的常用术语
Suppose you have met some translation errors in the English version of public signs in tourist attractions in Xi’an, you want to carry out a thorough research on it so as to reveal the current status, analyze the causes of the existing problems in translation and provide possible solutions to improve the situation. You plan to visit more tourist attractions to collect sources for your analysis and discussion. The sources you will collect in the tourist attractions are:Primary sources.
In an American literature class, the students are assigned the task of carrying out a research to find out the current studies on William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, and writing a literature review on it. So what kind of research will it be?Primary research.
Yuan Longping is known as China’s “father of hybrid rice”. His research for hybrid rice is __.experimental research
There is a published paper, titled “Metafictional Strategies in Muriel Sparks’ Novels.” (斯帕克元小说叙事解读）From the title, we may see that the research should be a _.qualitative research
Professor Zhang Zhongzai once wrote a paper, titled “Misinterpretation of Tess in Tess of the D‘Urbervilles” (对苔丝的误读）. From the title, we can see it is ____.an argumentative research paper
