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• Audience
• Purpose and Strategy
• Organization
• Style
• Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift
• Language Focus: Formal Grammar Style
• Flow
• Language Focus: Linking Words and Phrases
• Language Focus: this + Summary Word
• Presentation
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Considerations
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Audience
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Organization
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Organization
• Description of a situation
• Identification of a problem
• Description of a solution
• Evaluation of the solution
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Style
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Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift
• Verbs
• English often has two (or more) choices to express
an action or occurrence.
• In lectures and other instances → the verb +
preposition is used
• For written academic style → use single verb
wherever possible
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Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift
• Avoid Totalizing Words
Example:
Wrong: The number of cars on the road has caused global climate
change.
Example:
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Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift
• Avoid Clichés
1. Some common phrases that you use in everyday speech don’t translate well
to academic writing. Often such phrases are hyperbolized (i.e. exaggerated),
too casual, and so overused that most readers glance over them.
2. This list is a small selection of phrases meant to illustrate the style of
informal phrases.
Example:
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Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift
• Avoid “Used to”
1. Used to is a wordy way to make an action past tense.
Example:
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Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift
• Avoid Introductory Phrases
1. Introductory phrases get clunky and can often be eliminated or
shortened. If you find yourself using a phrase like the ones below,
experiment with shorter and more succinct ways to say the same
thing.
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Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift
• Avoid Intensifiers
1. Adverbs such as very, extremely, literally, and highly are
intensifiers. They modify a verb but are unnecessary to convey
your point in academic writing.
Example:
Wrong: The new neck brace prototype was very promising because
of its superb comfort and lean production cost.
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Language Focus: The Vocabulary Shift
• Avoid repetitive phrases
1. Repetition can occur in the sentence structures and the words
that you use.
Example:
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Language Focus: Formal Grammar Style
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Language Focus: Formal Grammar Style
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Task - An approach to academic writing
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Flow
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Language Focus: Linking Words &
Phrases
• Sentence connectors raise a small, but important,
issue → punctuation
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Language Focus: this + Summary Word
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Presentation
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Presentation - Recommendations
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Presentation - Recommendations
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Presentation - Recommendations
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Thanks!
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