信息管理专业英语 Information Management English School of Information Management, Wuhan University Instructor: An,Lu (Associate Prof, Dr.) 授课教师：安璐 副教授

Why do you learn this course? Improve your understanding when you read an article or listen to the presentation in the field of Information Management; Learn how to write an English paper in the field of Information Management; Learn how to communicate with a professional or expert in the field of Information Management…

Course materials  Textbook  Journals in the field of information management, such as JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL REVIEW OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCIENTOMETRICS LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH ….(See more in the subject category of INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE in Journal Citation Report 2012)

Course materials Important academic conference proceedings, such as ASIST (The Association for Information Science and Technology/former name: American Society of Information Science and Technology) meeting, once a year, included by Wiley database iConference, once a year, included by ACM database ISSI (Internation Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics), every two years, ICDM(IEEE International Conference on Data Mining), every year, included by IEEE database … See more on CPCI ( Conference Proceedings Citation Index(CPCI) -ISI ) database

Course materials Important web sites, such as ASIST(The Association for Information Science and Technology ), iSchool …

Course Schedule WeekContentExercises 1Unit 1 2Unit 2 / RDF 3Unit 3 / Eye tracking approach 4English paper abstract studyLIS literature translation 5Unit 4 / Semantic Web 6Unit 5 / cloud computing 7The structure and objective of an English article 8Unit 6 / big data 9LIS topic presentation in groups 10Unit 8 / ASIST 2013 meeting 11Writing Integrative Literature Reviews: Guidelines and Examples 12Unit 9 / Expert systemLIS listening comprehension

Unit 1 About Information 退出

New Words It is not a unique instance, but has its counterpart. 无独有偶. 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》 2. Night is the counterpart of day. 黑夜与白天相辅相成. 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》 3. It has no counterpart in the world. 举世无双. 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

New Words Post-Fordism (also named Flexibilism) is the name given to the dominant system of economic production,consumption and associated socio-economic phenomena, in most industrialized countries since the late 20th century. It is contrasted with Fordism, the system formulated in Henry Ford's automotive factories, in which workers work on a production line, performing specialized tasks repetitively. Post-Fordism is characterized by the following attributes: -Small-batch production. -Economies of scope. -Specialized products and jobs. -New information technologies. -Emphasis on types of consumers in contrast to previous emphasis on social class. -The rise of the service and the white-collar worker. -The feminization of the work force.

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Phrases information society 信息社会 knowledge economy 知识经济 information technology 信息技术 at large 详尽, 普遍 industrial society 工业社会 post-industrial society 工业社会 knowledge society 知识社会 Information Revolution 信息革命 be concerned with 牵涉到, 与... 有关, 参与 regard as 把... 认作

Phrases in other words 换句话说 deal with 涉及, 处理, 安排 a variety of 多种的 as well as 也, 又 as a whole 总体上 information theory 信息论 data compression 数据压缩 source coding 源编码

Phrases channel coding 通道编码 on average 平均起来 artificial intelligence 人工智能 System sciences 系统科学 coding theory 编码理论

Abbreviations IT (Information technology) 信息技术 ITAA (Information Technology Association of America) 美国信息技术协会

Text Please read the text carefully. Do you understand it?

Text A: About information Information society Information science Information technology Information theory

Notes [1] An information society is a society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity. 本句中， in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity 是一个定语从 句，修饰和限定 a society 。 in which 等于 where 。

Notes [2] Information science (also information studies) is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information. 本句中， (also information studies) 是对主语 Information science 的补充说明； primarily concerned with the collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information 是一个过去 分词短语，作定语，修饰和限定表语 an interdisciplinary science ，它可以扩展为一个定语从 句： which is primarily concerned with the collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information 。

Notes [3] Information science should not be confused with information theory, the study of a particular mathematical concept of information, or with library science, a field related to libraries which uses some of the principles of information science. 本句中， the study of a particular mathematical concept of information 是 information theory 的同位语， 对其进行补充说明； a field related to libraries which uses some of the principles of information science 是 library science 的同位语，对其进行补充说明，在该 同位语中， related to libraries which uses some of the principles of information science 是一个过去分词短 语，作定语，修饰和限定表语 a field ，其中 which uses some of the principles of information science 是 一个定语从句，也修饰和限定 a field 。

Notes [4] Information theory is closely associated with a collection of pure and applied disciplines that have been investigated and reduced to engineering practice under a variety of rubrics throughout the world over the past half century or more: adaptive systems, anticipatory systems, artificial intelligence, complex systems, complexity science, cybernetics, informatics, machine learning, along with systems sciences of many descriptions. 本句中， that have been investigated and reduced to engineering practice under a variety of rubrics throughout the world over the past half century or more 是一个定语从句，修饰和限定 a collection of pure and applied disciplines 。冒号 : 后面的 adaptive systems, anticipatory systems, artificial intelligence, complex systems, complexity science, cybernetics, informatics, machine learning, along with systems sciences of many descriptions 是对 a collection of pure and applied disciplines 的 举例说明。

Exercises Please do the exercises. Please mark the relevant sentences in Text B to the questions in advance

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