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=Writing courses ► More on Academic Writing=

Introduction to Academic Writing / More on Academic Writing

media type="custom" key="24868250" align="left" ** --- Course title:** More on Academic Writing


 * --- Co****urse type:** Component of Doctor of Education Unit (EDUC 9971)


 * --- ****Course dates:** February/March 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006


 * Overview**

This is a follow-up session to the Introduction to Academic Writing session. It reviews and extends the material covered in the first session. Please ensure that you bring with you to this session:


 * Copies of **two** articles by **different** well-known writers in your proposed area of study, drawn from **academic journals**. It is ideal (though not absolutely necessary) for these articles to contain clear sections such as: Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, and/or Recommendations. These may be, but do not have to be, the same articles you brought to the Introduction to Academic Writing session.
 * A copy of your **best recent piece of dissertation writing**. This may be from your Introduction, Literature Review or Methodology chapter. It does not need to be complete, but it should be at least 2,000 words in length.

We will begin by reviewing the basics of academic writing, and workshopping any issues you may have in these areas. We will then to go on to look at more complex issues of language (a micro level focus) before examining cohesion, style and discourse issues (thus concluding with a macro level focus). As we cover all of these areas, you will be asked to refer regularly to your two articles and compare them to your own writing. With classmates, you will discuss how well-known writers – and you yourself – put into practice the standard academic conventions.

- **► Part I: Review - **


 * **Structuring academic writing**
 * Resource 1: Introduction to Academic Writing (E-language Wiki)

- **► Part II: Accuracy - **


 * **Spotting common errors**
 * Resource 1: [|Never-say-neverisms] (Safire/Smith)
 * Resource 2: [|The editing and rewriting process] (Capital Community College Foundation)


 * **Spelling**
 * Resource 1: [|American and Australian spelling] (Online Grammar)


 * **Sentence structure**
 * Resource 1: [|Sentence fragments] (Capital Community College Foundation)
 * Resource 2: [|Run-on sentences, comma splices] (Capital Community College Foundation)
 * Resource 3: [|Quiz on recognizing fragments and run-ons] (Capital Community College Foundation)


 * **Tense usage**
 * Resource 1: [|Guide to the use of verb tense in academic writing] (Grinnell College Writing Lab)
 * Resource 2: [|Verb tense] (The Writing Center, UNC)


 * **Verb agreement**
 * Resource 1: [|Quiz on subject-verb agreement] (Capital Community College Foundation)
 * Resource 2: Determiners [handout]
 * Resource 3: [|Data is, or data are?] (Krupa/APA)


 * **Articles**
 * Resource 1: [|Guide to article usage in English] (David Appleyard)


 * **Punctuation**
 * Resource 1: Comma (Kent-Paxton, 1999, //Writing power//) [[|OneSearch] CMO EDUC9971]
 * Resource 2: Apostrophe (Kent-Paxton, 1999, //Writing power//) [[|OneSearch] CMO EDUC9971]

- **► Part III: Cohesion - **


 * **Cultural differences**
 * Resource 1: Where do you stand? (Swales & Feak, 2000, //English in today's research world,// pp.15-16) [[|OneSearch] CMO EDUC9971]
 * Resource 2: What is a discourse approach? (Scollon & Wong-Scollon, 2001, //Intercultural communication,// 2nd ed., pp.1-2 & 86-87) [[|OneSearch] CMO EDUC9971]
 * Resource 3: Text-based research evidence [handout]
 * Resource 4: Culture, logic and rhetoric [handout]


 * **Paragraph unity**
 * Resource 1: Paragraph unity [handout]
 * Resource 2: [|How do you avoid redundancy?] (APA)


 * **Signposting**
 * Resource 1: Signposting [handout]
 * Resource 2: [|Signpost words and phrases] (Centre for Teaching and Learning, Massey University)
 * Resource 3: Linking words [handout]
 * Resource 4: [|What are signposts?] (Finnish Virtual University)

- **► Part IV: Style - **


 * ** Clarity **
 * Resource 1: [[file:Plain-English.pdf|Plain English?]] [quote]
 * Resource 2: [|Politics and the English language] (Orwell/PlainLanguage.gov)
 * Resource 3: The Australian Language and Literacy Council's Position on Plain English (Australian Language & Literacy Council, 1996, //Putting it plainly,// pp.8-12) [[|OneSearch] CMO EDUC9971]
 * Resource 4: [|Understanding Plain English] (Plain English Foundation)


 * **Objectivity & opinions**
 * Resource 1: [[file:Tone.pdf|Tone: What to avoid in academic writing]] (MP)
 * Resource 2: [|Tone] (Virtual Language Centre, Hong Kong)
 * Resource 3: [[file:Impersonal Expressions.pdf|Impersonal expresssions]] (MP)
 * Resource 4: Data commentary [handout]
 * Resource 5: Investigating style (Swales & Feak, 2000, // English in today's research world, // pp.15-16) [[|OneSearch] CMO EDUC9971]

- **► Part V: Discourse issues - **


 * **Gender-neutral language**
 * Resource 1: [|APA Guidelines for Non-Sexist Use of Language] (APA/Committee on the Status of Women)
 * Resource 2: [|Gender neutrality in English] (Wikipedia)
 * Resource 3: [[file:Political Correctness.pdf|The battle over political correctness]] [quote]


 * **Foreign languages**
 * Resource 1: [[file:Foreign Language Materials.pdf|Foreign language materials]] [quote]


 * **Controversies in language use**
 * Resource 1: [[file:Nationhood & Languages.pdf|Nationhood & languages]] [quote]
 * Resource 2: Falling standards? [handout]
 * Resource 3: [[file:Literacies & Negotiation.pdf|Literacies as sites of negotiation]] [quote]


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