Academic Writing Flashcards
refers to the oral, written, auditory, and visual language proficiency required to learn effectively in schools and academic programs.
Academic Language
Academic Language should be:
Objective
Precise
Formal
is clear, concise, focused, structured and backed up by evidence. Its purpose is to aid the reader’s understanding.
Academic Writing
is a reading material that provides information which includes concepts and theories that are related to the specific discipline.
Academic Text
What is the nature & characteristics of an academic text?
complex
evidence-based
thesis driven
academic language
structured
critical, objective, specialized texts written by experts or professionals in a given field using formal language
Academic Text
examines, evaluates, and makes an argument about a literary work. It requires careful close reading of one or multiple texts and often focuses on a specific characteristic, theme, or motif.
Literary Analysis
Uses outside information to support a thesis or make an argument. Are written in all disciplines and may be evaluative, analytical, or critical in nature.
Research Paper
a document submitted at the conclusion of a Ph.D. program.
It is a book-length summarization
of the doctoral candidate’s research.
Dissertation
An important feature of academic writing. This feature of a text enables the reader to follow the argument
and navigate the text.
Structure
The two common structures of academic texts?
Three Part essay & IMRaD structure
What are the sections of the IMRaD structure?
Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion
What are the sections of the three part essay?
Introduction, Body, & Conclusion
Its purpose is to clearly tell the reader the topic, purpose and
structure of the paper. 10-20% of the paper.
Introduction
It develops the question, “What is the topic about?”. It may elaborate directly on the topic sentence by giving definitions, classifications, explanations, contrasts, examples and evidence. This is considered as the heart of the essay.
Body
