1.8 Academic Style

Today’s lesson will be about:

Objectives

You will be able to:

• Learn specific constructions to avoid in academic writings.
• Learn that there are good and bad connotations to certain academic words.
• Identify the sentences for academic writings and provide reasons.
• Rewrite the sentences which fit in academic writings.

Attendance

Academic Styles

PPT

Warm-up Discussion in pairs

Find your partner who has a sentence that means same as yours.

Discuss which one you prefer to use in academic writings. Talk about what is wrong in informal sentences and which part the writer made changes. Also, think about the reason why. Find evidences on PPT.

Group Discussion

Revising informal sentences_Handout (google doc)

Revising informal sentences (KEY)

Q&A for Revision

Assignment Submit

The due date and time was…

Portfolio Due: Sep, 20 (Fri) 11:55 p.m. sharp.

Revision Due: Sep, 22 (Sun) 11:55 p.m. sharp.

NEW DUE DATE AND TIME:

Both Portfolio and Revision Due: Sep, 23 (Mon) 11:55 p.m. sharp.

Portfolio is your Engineering activities. Pick 3 that you think you did best. You can revise them. You should have 3 paragraphs: 1 paragraph for 1 topic. 1 paragraph should be more than 10 lines but less than 15 lines.

Revision is your final draft of the diagnostic essay. It should be 2-3 pages with a title. 

Put your 3 engineering activities (Portfolio) first, and then put your Revision.

Portfolio and Revision should be ONE FILE!

Name the file, Diagnostic Portfolio Revision_YourName.

Format: Both Portfolio and Revision should use Times New Roman, 12-pt, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins on all sides.

Submit on Compass2g by Sep, 23 (Mon) 11:55 p.m. sharp.

After 11:55 p.m., we will not able to submit your assignment! Keep that in mind!

Homework

Engineering Activity #5

Look back your diagnostic essay with new perspective, academic style. Write a paragraph about questions below.

1. Choose three sentences from the diagnostic essay which have problems that you discussed today.

2. Revise them in the perspective of formal academic writing style.

3. In Your Comment, write a paragraph (10-15 lines) by indicating the problem each sentence has for academic writings. Also, write about the reasons why revised sentences fit better for academic writings.

*Must use Example Format.

*Name the file as academic style.

*Submit it on Dropbox in Engineering Activity.

*Due date: Sep, 19 (Thur) at 11:55 p.m. sharp.

Writer’s Help

Do 2 exercises on Writer’s Help:

1.8 Academic Style 1

1.8 Academic Style 2

*Due date: Sep, 18 (Wed) 11:55 p.m. sharp.

Punctuation Lesson on Friday
On Friday, we will talk about punctuation in academic writings. Put your topics or questions that you have, and vote for the other topics that you want to discuss in class.
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