EAPROF L4

• Academic Writing


  Scholarly discussions made by students, researchers or scholars
• Types of Academic Writing

  • Informative
  • Persuasive
  • Analytical
• Informative Academic Writing


  The purpose is to explain possible answers to your question and give readers new information about your topic
• Persuasive Academic Writing


  The purpose is to get the readers to adopt your answer to the question
• Analytical Academic Writing


  The purpose is to explain and evaluate possible answers to your question and choose the best answers based on your own criteria
• Professional Writing


  Any type of written communication done specifically in a professional context, most often applied in business and technical writing
• Significant Points


  • Purpose
  • Tone
  • POV
  • Mechanics
• Purpose


  To inform and persuade
• Tone


  Use a more personal tone/business english
• POV


  1st and 2nd point of view
• Mechanics


  No emoticons, contractions and unnecessary exclamation points are allowed
• Components of Professional Writing


  • Context
  • Message
  • Language
  • Purpose
  • Audience
  • Product
• Context


  The situation itself
• Message


  The content
• Language


  The channel
• Purpose


  The motive, general and specific
• Audience


  The receiver of the message
• Product


  The output produced