PPT-The Style and Craft of Academic Writing

The Graduate Writing Center February 2013 Nicolette Hylan Matthew Price The Graduate Writing Center OneonOne Consultations All types of writing all stages of the process Hours for the coming week posted Friday 4PM. 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.”. 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.. An Approach to Style. by William . Strunk. . Jr. and E.B. White. When we speak of an author’s style, we don’t mean his command of the relative pronoun, we mean the sound his words make on paper.. 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. 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. DBC-5 // PW: 1246massave . DORCHESTERBREWING.COM • 1250 Massachusetts Ave. Dorchester, MA. All beers are manufactured and owned by Dorchester Brewing Company. Before placing your order, please inform our server if a person in your party has a food allergy. . The Graduate Writing Center. February 2013. Nicolette . Hylan. Matthew Price. The Graduate Writing Center. One-on-One Consultations. All types of writing, all stages of the process. Hours for the coming week posted Friday, 4PM. 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. Simile. Metaphor. Personification. Hyperbole. Alliteration. Onomatopoeia. Power of three. Repetition. Which style strategy is used?. “I . looked down at the bee jar still clutched in my hand and saw a teaspoon of teardrops floating in the bottom. I unfastened the . 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 .