PPT-Improving Academic Writing

By Miss Lee English 11 Novato High School Warm Up Evaluate Reviews from Amazoncom Excerpt A JayZs Magna Carta Holy Grail quickly became one of the most anticipated new releases of 2013 JayZ shocked the world by announcing a sooner than later release of his newest effort The problem with Magna Carta Holy Grail is that it fails to live up to the hype or the consistency that has characterized JayZs previous efforts Over the course of 16 songs JayZ sometimes pleases while at other times he falls short of making a splash There is no Empire State of Mind or Run This Town this time around single Holy Grail hasnt had enough time to build a buzz Ultimately even some of the better more memorable tracks are accompanied by a rub of some sort . Different Spheres of Writing. Civic/Popular. Professional/Vocational. Personal/Relational. Creative/Literary. Academic/Higher Education. Academic vs. Popular. Propositional Narrative. Dictated organization Flexible format/organization. Audra Williams. Absent Professor Program. High. . School. v. . Collegiate. . Writing at the collegiate level demands more. Sophistication of argument. Varied structure. Ready for “publication” (use of citation methods). Knowledge as Conversation. Knowledge is a social artifact created (or “built up”) over time through an unending “conversation.”. “As human beings, we are the inheritors not of inquiry or accumulated information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries.”. June . 9, . 2014. Today. Academic style activities. Academic Writing. Academic writing:. - Aim is to present information as clearly. and accurately as possible.. Example. :. A lot of people think that the weather is getting worse.. Style. Louise . Livesey. Academic Skills Adviser. This workshop will:.  . Establish the difference between academic writing and other written . formats.  . Provide guiding principles when writing for assessment at word and sentence level. NON-ACADEMIC writing. Video #3. Dr. Matthew Robinson. Appalachian State University. Boone, NC USA. Questions to ask yourself:. 1) . Who. wrote it? (an academic or a “layperson”?). 2) . Who. is it written for? (an academic audience or the general public?). Dr Alex Adams. Writing Development Centre. Based on materials developed by Alicia Cresswell. How to write your doctoral thesis. Gather and organise your materials:. Data . Literature and other evidence. academic writing . in the . E. nglish language for non-native speakers. Academic Writing Centre, . NUI Galway. Compiled by Daniel . wagner. Information retrieved from The Mayfield Handbook for Technical and Scientific Writing & THE PURDUE OWL WEBSITE.. Jackie Tuck. 10. th. March 2016. j. ackie.tuck@open.ac.uk. Focus of the session. Taking a critical stance in . postgraduate . writing – what does it look like?. Building effective critical conversations in writing.. I swear it’s possible. I’ll try to make this painless. . Why are we talking about voice?. (writing side-eye). Writing Vs. Speaking. Code switching: . the practice of moving between variations of languages in different contexts. There are believed to be . 8. main features of academic writing in English. Can you brainstorm what they could be?. 8 features of academic writing in English. :. Complexity. Formality. Precision. Objectivity. Social Media, Academic Writing, and Constructing a Review Quickwrite #4: Can Social Media help us with Academic Writing? On p. 537, the authors of Everyone’s an Author assert (claim to be true) that Masaryk University, Brno . Thursday 12. th . & Friday 13. th. September. Katie Mansfield . ksmansfield@hotmail.com. . Thursday 12. th. September – Agenda . From IELTS to HE – bridging the gap . Level 3 East Hub CentralNorth Terrace campus The University of Adelaideph61 8 8313 3021writingcentreadelaideeduauwwwadelaideeduau/writingcentre/Objective LanguageWriting Centre Learning GuideAfter a t