相比非英语专业研究生和英语专业学生的学术论文研究，我国非英语专业本科生的研究性论文写作研究比较少。本研究通过对27所院校40篇非英语专业本科生的国际会议论文进行分析调查，发现这些英语论文的语言错误较少，但论文引用文献尤其是同类研究文献很少，对结果的讨论不够充分、学术规范也不很严谨、论文的逻辑思维不缜密、语言表达不正式等问题。访谈发现，造成这些问题的原因是多方面的。如阅读专业文献的困难使他们无法有效引用国际同类研究，缺少学术论文写作的专门训练使他们在遵守学术规范、有效组织论文结构和运用正式程度较高的语体方面都存在问题。同时也受到母语写作和思维的迁移以及文化传统的影响。本研究对于开展非英语专业本科生的学术英语写作和研究论文写作的教学具有很好的启示作用。

Studies of research articles (RAs) of Chinese non-English major undergraduates are rather scarce compared with those of English majors and of non-English major post-gradates. The present study aims to investigate the problems with conference papers written by non-English major undergraduates in terms of rhetorical structure, moves and citation practice. It is based on the analysis of 40 conference papers they submitted to the 1^st Shanghai International Collegiate Conference (June 12, 2015). The results reveal that i) the majority of novice writers failed to integrate previous studies into their literature reviews; ii) there were no comparison between the present studies and previous studies, nor explanations for their findings in the discussion section; iii) their papers lacked coherence and logic when ideas and data were presented, iv) they could not effectively follow the conventions of academic writing and v) informal and even colloquial English was pervasive. The interviews confirm the difficulty the novices had in reading English journal articles for information, the transfer of Chinese ways of thinking and writing as well as a deficit of training of English academic writing. The pedagogical implications will be discussed.