Academic Style
Academic writing (academic style, structure):
abbreviation: govt
acronym: MUELC
In essay, first time in full, for the rest use acronym
Phrasal verbs: verb and preposition
Change the use of I into it or into passive form
Use modal verb to softing the sentence
Learn high level vocabulary and collocations
low frequency vocabulary —> not widely use
Pharaphrasing is beautiful:
Structure
Cohesion —> between paragraph (linking words, reference (it, this, they, refering to something))
Coherence —> whole essay, whole report (Topic sentence, supporting sentences)
High level connecting words:
Indeed, In practice terms, In theory, Theoritically, It means, It refers to, The implication here is, It implies that, Based on this assumption, assuming that, provide that, Another way is.
Academic writing (academic style, structure):
- Formal (x informal)
- Objective (x subjective)
- Factual (x emotional, emotive language: terrible, horrible, etc —>do not use that)
- Tentative, cautions, hedgings: use the reporting verbs
abbreviation: govt
acronym: MUELC
In essay, first time in full, for the rest use acronym
Phrasal verbs: verb and preposition
Change the use of I into it or into passive form
Use modal verb to softing the sentence
Learn high level vocabulary and collocations
low frequency vocabulary —> not widely use
Pharaphrasing is beautiful:
- Change the structure
- Change word form
- Change the Sentence active to passive
Structure
Cohesion —> between paragraph (linking words, reference (it, this, they, refering to something))
Coherence —> whole essay, whole report (Topic sentence, supporting sentences)
High level connecting words:
Indeed, In practice terms, In theory, Theoritically, It means, It refers to, The implication here is, It implies that, Based on this assumption, assuming that, provide that, Another way is.