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Week 1 - Unit 1 - Introduction To Academic Writing

This document provides an introduction to academic writing. It defines academic writing as a formal style used in assessments and essays. The key features of academic writing are using formal language, having a logical structure, and supporting ideas with evidence from other authors to avoid plagiarism. The main purposes of academic writing are to report research, provide solutions to issues, discuss topics, and persuade the reader. Common types of academic writing include essays, reports, literature reviews, and dissertations. Long writing tasks generally include sections for an abstract, contents, introduction, body, conclusion, and references.

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Week 1 - Unit 1 - Introduction To Academic Writing

This document provides an introduction to academic writing. It defines academic writing as a formal style used in assessments and essays. The key features of academic writing are using formal language, having a logical structure, and supporting ideas with evidence from other authors to avoid plagiarism. The main purposes of academic writing are to report research, provide solutions to issues, discuss topics, and persuade the reader. Common types of academic writing include essays, reports, literature reviews, and dissertations. Long writing tasks generally include sections for an abstract, contents, introduction, body, conclusion, and references.

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Redacción en Inglés

Académico
Unit 1. Introduction to academic
writing
Grado en Estudios Ingleses
Curso 2018/2019
Unit 1: Introduction to academic
writing
CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Academic writing: Definition
2. Academic writing: Features
3. The purpose of academic writing
4. Common types of academic writing
5. The format of long and short writing tasks
Introduction
Starting with two basic questions…
1. What is academic writing?
2. What is the most important characteristic
of academic writing?
1. Academic writing: Definition
Starting with two basic questions…
1. What is academic writing?
Academic writing refers to a particular style of
expression used in formal essays and other
assessments

Formal contexts
2. Academic writing: Features
Starting with two basic questions…
2. What is the most important characteristic of
academic writing?
Academic writing is not just one skill… it is a
collection of skills or features:

“It requires formal language, a logical structure


and it must be supported by evidence”.
2. Academic writing: Features
“It requires formal language, a logical structure
and it must be supported by evidence.”
• Formal language:
– Clear, concise, formal and objective language.
– Traditional conventions of punctuation,
grammar, and spelling are used.
– It has a particular purpose, which is to aid the
reader’s understanding on one issue.
2. Academic writing: Features
“It requires formal language, a logical structure
and it must be supported by evidence.”
• Logical structure:
– Ideas are organised in a formal, coherent and
logical order or structure.
– Planned and focused → it answers the
question and demonstrates an understanding
of the subject.
2. Academic writing: Features
“It requires formal language, a logical structure
and it must be supported by evidence.”
• Evidence:
– Ideas must be supported by references from
academic literature (= mentioning other
authors)
– Responsibility is expected when it comes to
plagiarism
2. Academic writing: Features
Academic writing is not just one skill… it is a
collection of skills or features:
• Clear language • Specific purpose
• Precision • Logical structure
• Explicitness • Coherence
• Formal style • Analytic approach
• Objectivity • Responsibility
• Accuracy • Use of sources
2. Academic writing: Features
• When it comes to minor details: font, line
spacing… → There are not fixed rules for the
layout of academic work.

• Different formats → different schools,


departments...

• Guidelines will always be given.


3. The purpose of academic
writing
It is necessary to specify a purpose if you want
your academic writing to be successful.
– It provides writers with the question to which he
or she has to answer on the pages of their
academic essay/report.
– It helps writers decide what vocabulary,
grammar and organization to use in a piece of
writing.
3. The purpose of academic
writing
• Specify your purpose → reasons for writing:
– To report a piece of research the writer has
conducted
– To provide solutions to one issue
– To discuss a subject of common interest and the
writer’s view
– To synthesise research done by others on a topic
– To persuade your reader by stating an opinion and
giving reasons and examples to support this opinion
– ….
More reasons...

• Occasional letters to friends, relatives…

• Work: application letters, work reports,


project proposals, recommendations, project
assessments, sets of instructions…

• Own pleasure: short stories, poems, novels,


an autobiography…
3. The purpose of academic
writing
• Writers’ duty: be clear in their writing
• Have you faced with a text you can’t
understand?
• Some academic texts are just difficult to read.
Some even intentionally.
→ Strategies to understand difficult
academic texts: be familiar with academic
vocabulary and style → READ A LOT!!
Examples of “easy-to-read” books
3. The purpose of academic
writing
• Whatever the purpose...

Think about:
1. Probable readers of your work → Audience
2. Ways of explaining your ideas effectively
3. Style used (essay, report, newspaper article,
magazine article, novel, short story...)
4. Common types of academic
writing
4. Common types of academic
writing
5. The format of long and short
writing tasks
• Short essays:
- Introduction
- Main body
- Conclusion

Essays in practice sessions


Literature review / Case study /
• “Trabajo Discussion
Fin de
Grado”
- Abstract
- List of contents
- List of tables
- Introduction
- Main body
- Literature review
• Dissertations and
- Case study
journal articles
- Findings
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Appendices
Exercise

a) A short summary that explains the paper’s


purpose and main findings....

b) A list of all the sources the writer has


mentioned in the text....

c) A section, at the end, where additional


information is included....
Exercise

a) A short summary that explains the paper’s


purpose and main findings.... ABSTRACT

b) A list of all the sources the writer has


mentioned in the text.... REFERENCES

c) A section, at the end, where additional


information is included.... APPENDIX
Exercise
d) A short section where people who have
helped the writer are thanked...

e) Part of the main body in which the views of


other writers on the topic are discussed...

f) A section where one particular example is


described in detail...
Exercise
d) A short section where people who have
helped the writer are thanked...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

e) Part of the main body in which the views of


other writers on the topic are discussed...
LITERATURE REVIEW

f) A section where one particular example is


described in detail... CASE STUDY
Redacción en Inglés
Académico
Unit 1. Introduction to academic
writing
Grado en Estudios Ingleses
Curso 2018/2019

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