LESSON 1 Flashcards
(13 cards)
It is important because it is a measure of one’s professionalism as it seeks to simplify complex messages providing common understanding with the target audience.
Academic Writing
Students who can write a convincing and structured essay can speak in a clear and structured way, and with confidence.
Strong communication
The ability to move from one idea to the next and to understand the connection seems straightforward, but it is surprising how few people ever actually train this capacity. Learning to write, however, teaches students how to reason. In other words, writing teaches students “structured thinking”
Critical thinking and reasoning skills
When you write an essay, you need to understand who it is meant to be read by, what they need or want to
hear, and how to present that information in the most convincing or approachable manner.
Understanding an audience
Academic writing is a synthesis of all other language skills. You need strong grammar. You need an academic vocabulary. You need to be able to listen to and comprehend instructions, and you need to be able to speak up to ask questions and assert your opinions. And most importantly, you need to have read an awful lot. If developing advanced English skills is what you are after, there is no better way than learning academic writing.
Language skills
Finally, writing teaches students how to do this. The fact is, students don’t know the answer to most of the questions they are asked to answer in writing assignments. This means they need to go find out. The fancy name for “going to find out” is “research”.
Research Skills
A text used for academic and professional purposes make use of a formal rather than informal language
F - formal and informal
A text used for academic and professional purposes make use of explicit or observable, clear and precise facts or objects rather than implicit, unclear, unspecified facts.
E - explicit or implicit
A text used for academic and professional purposes is simplified to be able to reach or connect its target audience or readers.
C - complex or simple
A text for academic and professional purposes uses behavioral objectives that could be seen and touch by the senses. Text with subjective or unclear purposes could be used in other purposes rather than for the purpose of producing an academic text.
O - objective or subjective
An academic text could be written using either of the two approaches, parts to whole approach (specific) or whole to parts approach (holistic).
S specific or holistic
referred to a shoptalk, or specialized language known only to a particular profession,
Jargon
aim to diminish the disparity among people on the basis of physical ability, financial status and other social constructs.
Politically correct terms
