PPT-FEATURES OF ACADEMIC WRITING IN ENGLISH

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. 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. Erik Johnson, Arizona State University. Todd . Ruecker. , University of Texas El Paso. Shawna Shapiro, Middlebury College. Christine Tardy, DePaul University. Second Language Writing IS members. approved in June 2005. 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.”. Tutor. : Paulina Sobinska (paulina.sobinska@lshtm.ac.uk). Course administration – Jennifer Richards (eaptutor@lshtm.ac.uk). Aims of the EAP course. To ensure that students recognise the way academic English (especially scientific English) is written. Screening and Placement in English Classes. Mary Wood. SPEAK Test. Beverley Earles. Screening and Placement in English Classes. Placement in English classes. Clearing English. ELP curriculum. New screening policy for graduate students. . 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 . Screening and Placement in English Classes. Mary Wood. SPEAK Test. Beverley Earles. Screening and Placement in English Classes. Placement in English classes. Clearing English. ELP curriculum. New screening policy for graduate students. Terry Myers Zawacki. Associate Professor, English Department, Director Writing Across the Curriculum. tzawacki@gmu.edu . Melissa Allen . Coordinator of Support Services for Non-Native Speakers, . English Language Institute. S. ims. Academic Language. My . father used to tell this old joke:. A Georgia student visiting Harvard asks a passing student, “Excuse me, can you tell me where the library’s at?” The Harvard man says, “Here at Harvard, we do not end a sentence with a preposition.” The Georgia boy thinks for a second and tries again: “Sorry, can you tell me where the library’s at, . Macbeth. Conflict Poetry. The context of English:. KS4 Changes: Curriculum . 2017. Key Points. Greater focus on . unseen extracts . across both language and literature. . Contextual knowledge . essential to ‘unlocking’ extracts and constitutes 15% of English Literature marks.. 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. how new masters students learn the rules of the game. Clare Furneaux . PedRIO. Masters Conference. University of Reading Plymouth 8 January 2016. 1. Background: Writing . on many UK Ma programmes. Maria . Koutraki. 2015 – University of Crete. Introduction. Academic writing . in English is linear, which means it has . one central point or theme . with . every part contributing to . the main line of argument, . Bearne Eve Helen Wolstencroft2007 Visual Approaches to Teaching Writing Multimodal Literacy 5 -11-Paul Chapman PublishingBirnie f Billie 2014 A Teachers Guide to Organizational Strategies forThinking