PPT-Introduction to Academic Writing: Language and Style

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. 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. 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.”. SECTION A. Audience. Key aspects that would have been chosen to appeal to the target market:. Presentation: colour, pictures, diagrams, front style and size. Language: level of difficulty, variety of vocabulary, sentence structure. Week 4. Feb. 9. Introductions. Establishing a research territory. Creating a niche. Academic Vocabulary III. Editing for academic style. Agenda. Reasons why articles are rejected:. The research does not make a sufficiently large contribution to the “body of knowledge” (i.e., to the literature). 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.. . making . clear to students what we want them to know, . learn. , and do;. . tapping in to students' existing language resources to support their learning; . addressing . some of the questions and issues that . Class 25. May 28, 2013. Today. Descriptive Writing (continued). Descriptive Writing. Tells a story about a specific thing (object, person, place). - Appeals to the senses: sights, sounds, smells, taste, feel. Daron Kennett - USOE. Daron Kennett. ELA and WIDA Assessment Specialist. Utah State Office of Education. 801-538-7819. daron.kennett@schools.utah.gov. . Agenda. Changes to SAGE for 2015. SAGE Data and Instructional Implications. TM. Melanie Hundley, Vanderbilt University. Academic Language 101. 2. Today’s . goals:. Define academic language . Examine academic language in the . edTPA. Discuss ways to support the candidates. Academic Language. 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. Brock J. . Wojtalewicz. MA Candidate. University of Calgary. Alberta Teachers’ Association ESL Conference . November 15. th. , 2013. Red Deer, AB. End of Grade 3/Beginning of Grade 4 =. . Critical Threshold in Literacy Development. Level 3 East Hub CentralNorth Terrace campus The University of Adelaideph61 8 8313 3021writingcentreadelaideeduauwwwadelaideeduau/writingcentre/Objective LanguageWriting Centre Learning GuideAfter a t Academic Skills . M . Teach Early Childhood. Anatomy of a successful partnership. http://www.ptid.com.au/assets/images/projects/UniMelb%20GSE/UniMelb_GradSchEdu_04.jpg. Part 1: . collaboration. Alex Ding. The University of Leeds. Ian Bruce. The University of Waikato, New Zealand. Joint Book Project: Aim. To develop a more comprehensive theoretical framing of the dimensions of academic language based on the categories of Ferguson (1997). .