PPT-Tenses in Academic Writing

Dr Julia Miller English for Uni wwwadelaideeduauenglishforuni The teaching materials in this PowerPoint presentation have been developed by Dr Julia Miller and are available on the English for . 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.”. O n l i n e W r i t i n g C e n t e r , D a r t o n S t a t e C o l l e g e 1 Verb Tenses I. future tenses. a. Verb tenses of regular verbs (using the verb to play ) : Singular Plural Present Tenses A . tense. is the form of a verb that shows the time of an action or condition. The Six Verb Tenses. There are six tenses that indicate when an action or condition of a verb is, was, or will be in effect.. Each person takes a different tense category (simple, perfect, progressive, perfect progressive).. As a group, write a skit. Each character’s lines must be written in that person’s assigned tense category.. TENSES T 1 4 – All Tenses 1. I _______________ a great film yesterday. ( see ) 2. _____________________ a new car? ( you ever buy ) 3. I _______________ him last Monday. ( meet ) 4. TENSES T 20 of t he verb – All tenses 1. My family have ___________________ ( buy ) some land in southern France recently. They ___________________ ( build ) a summer house there at th I . will. travel to Japan next summer : decision. I . am going to . study German at school: plan. WILL / GOING TO. The simple Future has two different forms in English: will and be going to. Although the two forms can sometimes be used interchangeably, they often express two different meanings as mentioned before.. 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. I . will. travel to Japan next summer : decision. I . am going to . study German at school: plan. WILL / GOING TO. The simple Future has two different forms in English: will and be going to. Although the two forms can sometimes be used interchangeably, they often express two different meanings as mentioned before.. 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. 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 . COMPILED & PRESENTED BY . VINAYA AMMANNA. What are Tenses ?.. Tenses are a form of a verb that denotes the time, an action takes place. .. Eg: I . study. English. Eg: I . studied.