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1.DefinitionofLiterature

asetofworksonaparticularsubject;printedmaterial,esp.givinginformation;the

bodyofwritingsonaparticularsubject(scientificliterature)

2.ClassificationofLiterature

Here,wejustputvariousliteraturesunderthefollowingheadings:

1）Textbooks

Ingeneral,atextbookisakindofprofessionalwritingspeciallydesignedforthe

studentsinagivenbranchoflearning.

2）Monographs

Amonographis“anarticleorshortbookononeparticularsubjectorbranchofa

subjectthatthewriterhasstudieddeeply”

3）Papers

Papersarethemostimportantandreliablesourcesfortextbooks,monographs,andall

theotherdocumentaryworks.

4)Encyclopedias

Thedifferencebetweenadictionaryandanencyclopediaisthat“Adictionary

explainswordsandanencyclopediaexplainsfacts.”

5)Periodicals

Aperiodicalisaseriesofpublicationsthatappearatregularintervals.

6)SpecialDocumentation

Theso-calledspecialdocumentationreferstoalltheprintedmaterialsthatare

non-booksornon-periodicals.

3.LinguisticFeaturesofScientificLiterature

Stylistically,literatureisakindofformalwriting.Comparedwithaninformalwriting

whichusuallyutilizesaninformaltoneandcolloquiallanguage,aformalwritingisa

moreseriousapproachtoasubjectofgreatimportanceanditavoidsallcolloquial

expressions.

Syntactically,scientificliteraturehasrigorousgrammaticalstructures,andinmost

casesisratherunitary.

Morphologically,scientificliteratureisfeaturedbyhighspecialization,theuseof

technicaltermsandjargons,unambiguousimplicationandthefixedsenseofthe

word.

non-verballanguageisalsoverypopularinvariousliteraturessuchassigns,formulas,

charts,tables,photos,etc.forthesakeofaccuracy,brevity,andclarity.

4.SearchforRelevantLiterature

SearchforRelevantLiterature:globalsearch,specificsearch,andprocessedsearch

SupplementaryReadingsonInformationalRetrieval:retrievalsystem,microfilm,

internet.database,reformat,on,e-mail,informationinfrastructure,information