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HOW TO WRITE IN A GOOD ACADEMIC STYLE
by Dr G.M. Paterson
Introduction
I created this course while teaching English for Academic Purposes at the University of Cyprus from 1992 to 1996, and subsequently at the University of Lancaster. I was dissatisfied with approaches that ignored the most important part of the writing process: thinking. The good writer has his/her mind completely engaged, so that every word means something and is necessary to further the argument. My aim, therefore, is to develop the self-consciousness, the self-criticism and ultimately the self-confidence needed to write in a concise, coherent and clear style.
Because, this course concentrates on the process, not the content, of academic
writing, the skills developed can be applied to any assignment in any context.
If you have any comments or questions about
the course, please contact me.
CONTENTS
The Writing Process - From First Draft to Final Draft
The Nursery, the Novelistic, the Journalistic and the Academic
What is a Sentence and What is Worth a Sentence?
The Structure of a Typical Academic Sentence
Redundancy Reduction Techniques
Redundancy Reduction Exercises
Cultural Differences in Paragraph Structure
Written and Spoken Argumentation
Topic Sentences and the Drafting Process
Exercises in Paragraph Coherence
The Use of Semantic Markers to Increase Clarity
Incorporating
the Work of Others
Some Typological Guidelines for Quoting
Introducing the Work of Others
Verbs to Introduce Quotations, Paraphrases and Summaries
© 2006 Martin Paterson