Academic Style (Academic Writing)

The do’s and don’ts of academic writing. 20 key points on how to write academically with practice activity.

This video is for low-level International students learning how to write academically and is based on writing marking criteria on academic English courses in UK universities. More information go here: https://www.academic-englishuk.com/academic-style

Disclaimer: There are many ways to write academically - the best way is to check with what your department want. UK students are usually provided with a handbook at the beginning of their course and this will highlight the academic conventions for that particular course.

Academic Style worksheets / lessons.
1: Academic Style: 20 key features to writing
This lesson brainstorms academic style / formality in writing. Teacher conducts feedback by using visual highlighting and explaining the concepts. There are also 10x practice exercises from informal to formal

2. Academic Style 2: Paragraph analysis, comparison and discussion
This lesson compares two paragraphs on CSR (informal and formal), discusses the conventions of academic style and finishes with a sentence re-writing activity

3. Academic Style 3: Vocabulary (AWL & Nominalisation)
This lesson focuses on two key areas of academic writing: AWL and nominalisation. There are three worksheets comprising of a number of different activities to practice categorisation and reformulation at sentence and paragraph level.

To buy downloads go here: https://www.academic-englishuk.com/academic-style

More on Academic Writing:
https://www.academic-englishuk.com/writing

Book discussed in video is:
Academic Writing Book 4th ed by S.Bailey
https://www.routledge.com/Academic-Writing-A-Handbook-for-International-Students-4th-Edition/Bailey/p/book/9781138778504