Category: General Strategies
Assignment Expectations: Reflection Writing
Posted by 11trees | Mar 22, 2018 | Adjusting Expectations | 0
Audience, Purpose, and Tone: Hedging – good ...
Posted by 11trees | Mar 21, 2018 | Audience, Purpose, and Tone, Genre | 0
Adjusting Expectations: Excessive Elaboration
Posted by 11trees | Mar 21, 2018 | Adjusting Expectations, Genre | 0
Audience, Purpose, and Tone: Objectivity
Posted by 11trees | Mar 21, 2018 | Audience, Purpose, and Tone, Genre | 0
Q&A: Can a single example be used as both log...
Posted by 11trees | Dec 2, 2017 | Writing Advice, Argument, Q&A | 0
Assignment Expectations: Excessive Adherence to Inappropriate Structures
by 11trees | Mar 22, 2018 | Adjusting Expectations | 0
It may be confusing, even annoying, but some of the structures you may have learned in test prep classes and English language classes, such as the five-paragraph essay, may not be appropriate for use in other classes. Be careful to follow assignment instructions.
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by 11trees | Mar 22, 2018 | Adjusting Expectations | 0
Reflection writing assignments are common in many classes, especially as a response to reading assignments. It is distinctive from other types of academic writing because it encourages the writer to write in the first person, but usually it has the same expectations as other academic writing assignments in other ways.
Read MoreAudience, Purpose, and Tone: Hedging – good and bad
by 11trees | Mar 21, 2018 | Audience, Purpose, and Tone, Genre | 0
Hedging is a way of using language to make an argument more effective by softening or strengthening it. An idea expressed without appropriate hedging may seem too general, too confident, or too extreme. Specific vocabulary and writing strategies can be learned and used to hedge appropriately.
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by 11trees | Mar 21, 2018 | Adjusting Expectations, Genre | 0
Longer is not always better! Limit your sentences to a few clauses, and alternate long sentences and short sentences. Academic writing in English tends to have long, sophisticated noun phrases, but it is not a requirement to include complex sentence structure and long strings of joined clauses.
Read MoreAudience, Purpose, and Tone: Objectivity
by 11trees | Mar 21, 2018 | Audience, Purpose, and Tone, Genre | 0
Attempt to cultivate objectivity. Objectivity is an overall goal in academic writing, even if the goal is to convince the reader of something. It demonstrates that the emphasis is on the object – your writing, your research – not on you yourself.
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