Work together to give advice on these aspects of academic writing:
- Culture
- Influence
- Interest/ Readability
- Language (grammar, vocabulary, punctuation, spelling, etc)
- Objectivity
- Organisation
- Originality
- Persuasiveness/ Strength of arguments
- Process (planning etc)
- Publication
- Readership
- References/ Using sources
- Style
- Time management
- Topic
Use the ideas under the fold to help extend your discussion.
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Possible subcategories
Culture
- British academic English/ American academic English
Vocabulary
- prefixes/ suffixes
- terminology/ jargon
Punctuation
- single quotation marks/ double quotation marks
- full stop/ period
- comma/ semi-colon
- semi-colon/ colon
- semi-colon/ dash
- dash/ hyphen
- dash/ brackets
- round brackets/ square brackets
- round brackets/ parentheses
Spelling
- British spelling/ American spelling
Objectivity
- claims/ statements
Organisation
- plan/ first draft
- introduction/ abstract
- chapter/ section
- paragraph/ section
- diagrams (e.g. graphs and charts)/ figures
- conclusion/ summary
- list of references/ bibliography
- list of references/ further reading
- footnotes/ appendices
Process (planning etc)
- brainstorm/ mind map
- editing/ proofreading
Publication
- article/ (academic) paper
- (academic) (peer-reviewed) journal/ magazine
Readership
- essay/ (academic) paper
Style
- academic writing/ semi-academic writing
- academic vocabulary/ informal vocabulary
- bullet points/ numbering
- abbreviation/ acronyms/ contractions
- title/ heading
- quotes in quotation marks/ quotes as indented paragraphs
- quoting/ paraphrasing
- “One”/ “You”
- “I”/ “The author”
- questions/ rhetorical questions
- italics/ bold/ underlining
- blank line/ indent
- using sources/ plagiarism
When your teacher stops you, ask about the vocabulary and issues above.
Most of the words and expressions next to each other above are different in some way. Discuss together:
1. How similar or different they are (in general/ overall)
2. What the differences are
| Useful language for comparing absolutely/ almost identicalexactly/ almost exactly/ practically the samesurprisingly/ very/ quite similartotally/ completely/ almost completely/ surprisingly/ very/ quite different the most obvious/ most striking/ most important/ biggest/ only difference/ similarityan obvious/ a striking/ an important/ a substantial/ a slight difference/ similarity slightly/ a little/ considerably/ substantially/ quite a lot/ a great deal/ much/ far …er/ more… |
When your teacher stops you, ask about the comparisons or comparing language.
Brainstorming stage
Without looking above, try to remember or think of at least two ways of filling each of the gaps below:
_____________________________________________________________ identical
_____________________________________________________________the same
_______________________________________________________________similar
______________________________________________________________different
The _________________________________________________difference/ similarity
A/ An __________________________________________________difference/ similarity
__________________________________________________________… er/ more…
Check your answers as a class or with the previous worksheet.
Ask your teacher about any expressions above which you are not sure how to use, using them to compare different aspects of academic writing each time.
Use similar language to discuss some essay questions which ask you to compare.
Ask about any tasks you are not sure about, would like to hear other opinions on, etc.
Plan those tasks.
Compare your plans with another group.
Write the introduction to one of those essays.
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