ACADEMIC WRITING “MAIN FEATURES” PART 2.

Consequently with what was said in the previous post, now,  it is going to to be paraphrased a bit more of what Maria Teresa, an English professor at the University of Carabobo, Venezuela, talks about in Chapter two of her book. Let us know about Complexity and Conciseness.

Complexity is understood as the combined possibilities of a sentence to be constructed. For example: An academic writing commonly has got complex words, sentences, and vocabulary; thus, it uses subordinate clauses, relative clauses, infinite clauses, non-finite clauses, verbless clauses, compound clauses, nominal clauses, adverbial clauses, and more nominalization. Remember (phrases are not allowed).

Conciseness, accoding to Váquez (2011), “means brevity and completeness.” This is to say that everything has a role and we should know how to eliminate unnecessary data.

Taking into Consideration the strategies proposed by (Darling and the Capital Community  College Foundation 2004; Hacker and Van Goor 1994; and the Purdue Online Writing Lab (2006) cited in Vázquez 2011), they are presented in the conceptual-mapping below:

ACADEMIC WRITING “MAIN FEATURES”

A  paraphrasing based on the Academic Writing for Higher Education Book by Maria Teresa, an English professor at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Carabobo, Venezuela.

An academic wirting is the production of good theory or intelectual knowledge of academicians in an educational setting, where knowledge is exchanged and transmitted with the purpose of showing what writers have studied, learnt and created. What is to exchange here, is basically reflected on experiences into the classrooms, procedures, reseaches, readings, social educational-related events where the source has a great privilege, and the author has to be mentioned; Additionally, we can say that this demonstration by creaters is seen on essays, abstracts, reports, a-levels, summeries, thesis, presentations, and so on. Let us see how written features of an academic output is set by using the following criteria: Formality, objectivity, complexity, conciseness, referencing, substance and non-sexist language:

Firstly, we will focus on the formality and objectivity: