文档介绍：Chapter 1What is academic writing?
Definition
Features: Cohesion and coherence; grammar,
STYLE
Metatext
RESEARCH FUNCTIONS
Citing other researchers' work
VOCABULARY CHOICE
What is academic writing?
The term 'academic writing' comprises many different types of text, ranging from a research article written for publication in an academic journal to a MSc dissertation to an essay written for a university course.
However, there are certain features which appear to be typical of academic writing. For example, academic texts answer a specific question, or questions, using a set of well-structured, logical arguments. The arguments are often based on research carried out by the writer or other researchers. Academic texts contain references to previous research, which are documented at the end of the text. Academic texts are written in an impersonal, objective style, and are characterized by certain language features such as the avoidance of personal and contracted forms, a high lexical density, frequent nominalisations and the use of the passive.
Features:
Cohesion, the monly used to describe the mechanisms which help to make a text clear, logical, unified and reader-friendly.
Certain aspects of grammar which can cause difficulties to even highly-proficient writers.
Punctuation, the symbols which help anise and clarify texts.
Considerations of style which affect the word choice and structure of academic text
Cohesion
Make your sentences "stick" together better?
Write texts with logical links between the parts?
Create reader-friendly texts that are easy to read?
Get your points clearly across to the readers?
Emphasise what needs emphasising?
Coherence:CREATING FOCUS
it is also important to give your writing a "focus" (coherence). You can do this by carefully choosing your topic at the beginning of each sentence.
To understand why, look at the example paragraph below.
Good cohesion, but no coherence: 1Romance languages descend from a Latin parent, and many