Topic 7: Academic Style I
Section outline
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Using this excerpt from Swales, J. M., Feak, C., B. (2012). Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press you will learn more about academic style in English.
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An appropriate use of collocations increases your level of English.
Learn more in this study material.
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Read the list of collocations commonly used in academic writing.
Use eight collocations of your choice from the list in sentences about your subject of study.
Deadline: April14, 2022.
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Nominalisation is a common feature of academic writing in English.
Using this worksheet you'll practice changing word forms. Please complete all exercises. We'll discuss the answers next time we meet.
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Practice the use of articles. The answer key will be revealed next week.
Source: Vince, M., Emmerson, P. First Certificate Language Practice. Oxford: Macmillan, 2003.
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Cohesion is an important feature of academic writing.
Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence. A cohesive text is created in many different ways.
Watch a short lecture on cohesion by John Kotnarowski, English language fellow from the Academic Writing University Centre of the National University for Science and Technology in Moscow.