Zusammenfassung der Ressource
ACADEMIC WRITING
- TIPS
- Understand the topic well
- Choose the words carefully
- Follow a simple yet intriguing writing style
- Use technical jargons carefully.
- Proof check and copy-edit
- Use a list or web to organize your ideas
- Ask a friend for feedback
- Divide the essay into short paragraphs
- Follow the rules of punctuation and grammar.
- PROCESS
- PREWRITING
- DRAFTING
- REVISING
- EDITING
- PUBLISHING
- Think of an
interesting title,
create a final
copy. and share
your writing.
- Make sure to have complete sentences, correct
spelling, necessary capitalization and punctuation.
- Improve your
writing with quotes,
different beginnings
and endings, with
descriptive words
and developing
important parts.
- Create a rough copy
of your writing, put
your ideas in order .
- Brainstorm ideas,
use a list or web to
organize your ideas.
- DIMENSIONS OF
THE LANGUAGE
- VOCABULARY
- Affixes,
roots and
transformations
- General
academic
terms
- Figurative
expressions
and multiple
meaning
terms
- Content terms
and collocations
- SYNTAX
- Complexe
verb tenses
- Transitions/Connectives (e.g.
because, yet, however,etc.)
- Sentence structure(compound,
complex) and leght
- Passive voice
- DISCOURSE
- Clarity and coherence
- Density
- Voice and audience
- Message organization and text structure
- DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
ACADEMIC WRITING &
OTHER WRITING CONTEXTS
- Academic writing does
many things that personal
writing does not.
- The citation of
published
authors
- In academic writing you
should always follow the
rules of punctuation and
grammar.
- Academic topics are
focused on abstract things
like ideas or concepts
- Both academic language and convertional
language help to communicate thinking yet the
former is more privileged in formal academic
settings.
- WHAT IS IT?
- Academic writing is a special genre
of writing that prescribes its own set
of rules and practices.