PPT-Writing in an Academic

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. 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.. 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. 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. 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. 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 . heory I posit that rather than acting as a magic mirror in which domestic minorities see how they would be treated but for legal constraints Haitian REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS Harris Teeter NOMA Har Level 3 East Hub CentralNorth Terrace campus The University of Adelaideph61 8 8313 3021writingcentreadelaideeduauwwwadelaideeduau/writingcentre/Objective LanguageWriting Centre Learning GuideAfter a t