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• Academic text


  A written language that provides information, containing ideas and concepts related to a particular discipline
• Types of academic texts

  • Essay
  • Research Paper
  • Report
  • Project
  • Article
  • Thesis
  • Dissertation
• Nature of an academic text

  • Structure
  • Tone
  • Language
  • Citation
  • Complexity
  • Evidence-based Arguments
  • Thesis-driven
• Academic Language


  The language needed by students to do the work in schools, including discipline-specific vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, and rhetorical conventions
• Social Language


  The set of vocabulary that allows us to communicate with others in the context of regular daily conversations
• Differences between social and academic language

  • Social Language
  • Academic Language
• Social Language


  • In everyday interactions in spoken/written form
  • For everyday conversation
  • Used to write to friends, family, or for other social purposes
• Academic Language


  • In textbooks, research papers, conferences in spoken/written form
  • Used in school/work conversations
  • Appropriate for written papers, classwork, homework
  • Very formal and more sophisticated in its expressions
  • Doesn't use slang
  • Uses a variety of terms
  • Uses sentences that begin with appropriate transitions
• Characteristics of an academic text

  • Formal
  • Objective
  • Impersonal
• Formal


  Should not sound conversational or casual; avoid colloquial, idiomatic, slang, or journalistic expressions
• Objective


  Unbiased; based on facts and evidence, not influenced by personal feelings
• Impersonal


  Avoiding personal pronouns 'I' and 'we'