Modes of writing Flashcards
What is communication for?
Communicating is for exchanging information, reach and understanding and to maintain social relations.
What are strategies for communication?
To exchange information you should make honest and relevant statements.
To reach an understanding, you should ask questions, notice feedback and negotiate.
To maintain social relations you should be kind, approachable and funny.
What is academic communication for?
Academic communication is used to exchange accurate and complex information that adds to collective knowledge and reach an understanding based on quality of evidence and argumentation.
What are strategies for academic communication?
To exchange information, you should provide background and define key concepts.
To reach an understanding you should anticipate questions and critiques.
To maintain academic or professional relations, you should abide by conversations and stay formal.
What are the four modes of academic writing?
- Descriptive
- Analytical
- Persuasive
- Critical
What is descriptive writing?
It’s purpose is to introduce facts and information to the reader. The nature of writing is descriptive, detailing, reporting and informative.
It exchanges information by providing background and defining key concepts. It also maintains a social relation by presenting the writer as objective and credible.
What is analytical writing?
It’s purpose is to analyze a topic to understand it better from different perspectives. The nature of writing is comparitive, investigative, or a survey.
It exchanges information by demonstrating connections between ideas. It can also reach an understanding because it situates descriptive information in context and it demonstrates the relevance of information to the author’s goals. Lastly it also maintains a social relation by presenting the author as credible by demonstrating expertise.
What is persuasive writing?
It’s purpose is to convince the reader to adopt a perspective. The nature of writing is convincing, argumentative, logical and compelling.
It can reach an understanding by demonstrating the relevance of the author’s goals to the reader. It also maintains a social relation by presenting the author as credible by demonstrating purposefulness.
What is critical writing?
It’s purpose is to exhibit the writer’s thorough and solid understanding of the topic. The nature of writing is critical and opinionated.
It can reach an understanding by explaining the credibility of descriptive information and demonstrating the relevance of the author’s goal to contributing to collective knowledge. It also maintains a social relationship by presenting the writer as credible by demonstrating expertise.
What is the IMRaD?
IMRaD stands for: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion.
What is the mode of writing in the introduction?
The mode of writing is description, critique and persuasion.
What is the mode of writing in the methods?
The mode of writing is description and analysis.
What is the mode of writing in the results?
The mode of writing is description and analysis.
What is the mode of writing in the discussion?
The mode of writing is description, persuasive and critique.
What is the content of the introduction?
It describes the problem and your goal. It describes previous findings, critiques the state of the literature and persuades the reader to care (in order for them to read on).
