Finals

• ACADEMIC WRITING - quite formal, objective (impersonal) and technical
• ACADEMIC WRITING - refers primarily to nonfiction

  writing that is produced as part of academic work
• TYPES OF LANGUAGE

  • TECHNICAL LANGUAGE
  • FORMAL LANGUAGE
  • OBJECTIVE LANGUAGE
• FORMAL LANGUAGE

  - is less personal than informal language.
• TYPES OF ACADEMIC WRITING

  • ANALYTICAL
  • DESCRIPTIVE
  • PERSUASIVE
  • CRITICAL
• TECHNICAL LANGUAGE

  refers to the specific terminology and jargon

  employed in a particular field or discipline.
• DESCRIPTIVE

  The simplest type and its purpose is to provide facts or information.
• OBJECTIVE LANGUAGE

  The convention of 'objective' writing is that arguments use

  impartial language, which is not personal, judgmental, or

  emotive.
• FORMAL LANGUAGE

  does not use colloquialisms,

  contractions or first-person pronouns such as “I” or “We.”
• ANALYTICAL

  requires you to re-organize the facts and information you describe into categories, groups, parts, types or relationships.
• Analytical

  includes descriptive writing
• PERSUASIVE

  has all the features of analytical writing (that is, information plus

  re-organizing the information), with the addition of your own point of

  view.
• CRITICAL

  has all the features of persuasive writing, with the added feature of

  at least one other point of view.
• Critical

  requires you to consider at least two points of view, including your

  own.
• Objective language, therefore, is considered fair and

  accurate. It avoids exaggeration and bias, and shows respect for

  the views of others.