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The document outlines key features of academic writing, emphasizing the importance of precision, objectivity, and explicitness in language. It suggests using expanded modal forms, avoiding emotional language, and employing appropriate indicating strategies to enhance clarity. Additionally, it discusses structural techniques such as combining ideas effectively, nominalization, and passivization to improve the overall quality of academic writing.

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The document outlines key features of academic writing, emphasizing the importance of precision, objectivity, and explicitness in language. It suggests using expanded modal forms, avoiding emotional language, and employing appropriate indicating strategies to enhance clarity. Additionally, it discusses structural techniques such as combining ideas effectively, nominalization, and passivization to improve the overall quality of academic writing.

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Features

OF ACADEMIC WRITING
DISCUSSION

ASSESSMENT
FOR
MAL
I TY
This means that since our audience are fellow members of
the academic community, the language used requires
precision to make it “legitimate” piece of academic
writing.
1.
CHOOSE EXPANDED
MODAL FORMS OVER
CONTRACTED FORMS.
CANNOT
DO NOT
WILL NOT
2.
MESS UP
SHUT DOWN
DAMAGE
CLOSE
ASAP
AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE
As a matter of
fact
1
Writing can’t be done
effectively if you don’t burn the
midnight oil.
OBJECTIVITY
This means that your writing must be impersonal and
must maintain a certain level of social distance.
WRITING NEEDS TO BE FREE OF
EMOTIONS.
The researchers
need to conduct
the experiment.
How can these
problems be solved?
Certain measures
must be
discovered to
solve the
problems.
THE
INVESTIGATORS
WERE VERY
SHOCKED TO SEE
THE OUTCOME OF
THE TESTS
The investigators
did not expect the
results would be
different.
2
When people are faced with difficult
problems, I think that they could not bear
with the problem any longer, that is why
they get into drug overdose.
Explicitness
Use of appropriate indicating strategies which
allow your readers to trace the relationship of
the various parts found in your study.
“however”
To show a change in
the line of argument.
It is apparent that the
government hopes to provide
assistance to the poor. However,
making allocations available to
“the poorest of the poor” seems
to work not in the long term.
Other useful phrases:
This is due to the…
This resulted in…
Similarly…
In addition…
For example…
3
Write a sentence using the
expression FOR EXAMPLE.
TO AVOID MAKING SWEEPING
GENERALIZATIONS.
GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS
ARE
CORRUPT.
Corruption is
commonly linked to
some key
government officials.
Verbs indicating caution:
Tends, suggest, appear
to be, think, believe,
doubt, indicate
Modal verbs:

Will, must, would,


may, can, might could
Adverbs of frequency:

Often, sometimes,
usually
Modifiers:

Quite, rather, fairly


4
You need to eat this so you
will get healthy.
STRUCTURE
COMBINING IDEAS EFFECTIVELY,
NOMINALIZATION, PASSIVIZATION are some
ways on how to achieve structure fit for
academic writing.
COMBINING IDEAS EFFECTIVELY
-to avoid redundancy
The earthquake caused a lot of loss of life.
The earthquake caused massive property damage.
The earthquake changed the landscape of the place.
NOMINALIZATION
-transforming verbs into nouns
The company created a software to
manage the transactions was a
success.
We can solve the problem.
The problem can be solved.

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