Hey all!
I'm currently studying scientific japanese with the goal of being able to understand engineering related textbooks and research papers. I am a student so I don't have much time for studying jp but sometimes I'll take my own papers that I've written and see if I can write them in japanese.
Is there anybody, website etc that can mark these for me? I tried looking on tutoring sites but they all seem to be just speaking practice partners and stuff.
I'd appreciate any help and resources related to learning to write research papers and engineering jn japanese
Thank you!!
by Mariko000
3 comments
Chat gtp maybe ?
i unfortunately don’t know of anything other than seeking a practice partner; when i took japanese in university we wrote scientific papers in Japanese so that’s how I got my practice. However if you already have the ability to read in Japanese at a decent level, I suggest just going straight into reading academic articles in JP. I found it not too difficult, and even easier than reading novels once you learn your industry-specific vocabulary. That’s probably the best way to learn how to format research papers in Japanese, to be honest
理科系の作文技術 is one of the definitive text book of scientific writing for Japanese people and that might be helpful to you. But it is about how to structure the text in scientific writing, and the basic principles are not specific to a language and so it might be the case you didn’t find anything useful.
If you are looking for technical terms or jargon for a certain scientific area, you’ll have to read text books in that area in Japanese. That’s how I grow my English vocabulary in my area (computer science, in my case). It takes time but you can’t do otherwise. The specific websites or books are up to your area.
If you’re looking for phrases or sentence structures commonly used in (scientific) writings but not in verbal conversations — then, the book I suggested above might have several useful samples. Or any other textbooks would be helpful.