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2. Styles What is the difference b/n general and academic writing?What makes the writing academic?
3. Let’s look at an exampleRead the essay
4. Academic writing/Grammatical rangeLess functional words (can, would)more
5. NominalizationThe country's economy has gone. I estimate
6. Answers1) The rise of the planet's temperature
7. Why passive?Often in academic writing, we don't want
8. Why passive?
9. IELTS writing task 2 (+/-)IntroGeneral sentenceSupporting sentenceParaphrasePlan+opinion (optional)Body Topic AddeXample ImportanceConclusionSumming up/Something newOpinionMoral/Concluding sentence
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Styles What is the difference b/n general and academic writing?What makes the writing academic?

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Academic Writing presentation/Презентация по Академическому письму

Styles What is the difference b/n general and academic writing?What makes the writing academic?

Let’s look at an exampleRead the essay carefully and underline the aspects,

Academic writing/Grammatical rangeLess functional words (can, would)more lexical value words (content related)NOMINALIZATION-Transition

NominalizationThe country's economy has gone. I estimate bank interest rates to drop.My

Answers1) The rise of the planet's temperature is a result of global

Why passive?Often in academic writing, we don't want to focus onwho is doing

IELTS writing task 2 (+/-)IntroGeneral sentenceSupporting sentenceParaphrasePlan+opinion (optional)Body Topic AddeXample ImportanceConclusionSumming up/Something newOpinionMoral/Concluding sentence

IELTS writing task 2 (Prob/Sol)IntroGeneral sentenceSupporting sentenceParaphrasePlan+opinion (optional)BodyCauseExplanationExampleSolutionConsequenceConclusionSumming up/ConsequenceOpinionMoral/Concluding sentence

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Слайд 2 Styles
What is the difference b/n general and

academic writing?
What makes the writing academic?

Слайд 3 Let’s look at an example
Read the essay carefully

Let’s look at an exampleRead the essay carefully and underline the

and underline the aspects, that in your opinion, make

it academic

Слайд 4 Academic writing/Grammatical range
Less functional words (can, would)more lexical

Academic writing/Grammatical rangeLess functional words (can, would)more lexical value words (content

value words (content related)
NOMINALIZATION-Transition from verb and adjective phrases

to noun forms (People cutting down the trees in the Amazon causes environmental problems=Deforestation has led to the emergence of environmental problems in the Amazon)
Phrasal verbs should be replaced with academic verbs (take out=extract/excavate, to look for-search/investigate/research)
Transition to passive voice-the point is more important than the subject or the doer
Impersonal reference/generalization (A friend of mine=Many people)
Substitution (Many people think that the world is becoming more materialistic=It is widely believed that the world is transitioning to a more materialistic sense of values)
Anaphoric (referring to previously mentioned words), cataphoric (referring downward to subsequent words) and exophoric reference (referring to something outside the text)

Слайд 5 Nominalization
The country's economy has gone. I estimate bank

NominalizationThe country's economy has gone. I estimate bank interest rates to

interest rates to drop.
My estimation is based on the

slowdown of the economy.
The Minister has accepted bribes. This has shocked the nation.
The minister's acceptance of bribes shocked the nation.
Ram insisted I stay back for dinner. I reached home late.
I reached home late because of Ram's insistence.
Rita recognized the thief. This led her into trouble.
Rita's recognition of the thief led her into trouble.

Слайд 6 Answers
1) The rise of the planet's temperature is

Answers1) The rise of the planet's temperature is a result of

a result of global warming.
2) The business report

indicates that sales figures are down 10% on last month, which is worrying.
3) The analysis of data by a team of scientists in the lab was undertaken before writing a report.
4) Mathematics and physics experts have produced a mathematical formula which explains the modern phenomena of network science.

Слайд 7 Why passive?
Often in academic writing, we don't want to

Why passive?Often in academic writing, we don't want to focus onwho is

focus onwho is doing an action, but on who

is receiving or experiencing the action. The passive voice is thus extremely useful in academic writing because it allows writers to highlight the most important participants or events within sentences by placing them at the beginning of the sentence.
Examples In the following sentences, the passive construction is preferable because you want readers to focus on the result of an action rather than the person doing the action.