Writing Academic English for Beginner

The Writing Process, Academic Style, Using Sources, Organising

Last updated 7/2018

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What you'll learn

4 sections • 12 lectures • 1h 50m total length

Introduction5:00
Develop foundational academic English writing skills for beginners. Learn to paraphrase, summarize, cite sources, and craft organized paragraphs across four units.
What is academic writing? Why do we need it?5:11
Explore why academic writing in English matters, develop understanding through reading, describe ideas clearly, analyze strengths and weaknesses, and present arguments in formal formats.
The Writing Process

Generalising4:40
Generalizing teaches moving from a general statement to specific examples, using language of quantity, frequency, and certainty (most, often, certainly) to strengthen academic writing.
Formal/ informal style11:23
Master objective academic writing by applying three strategies: passive voice, avoiding personal pronouns, and formal vocabulary. Explore how these choices strengthen clarity and formality.
References5:14
Learn how to reference ideas to recognize other writers, avoid plagiarism, support your arguments with evidence, and compile a bibliography alphabetically by author with complete publication details.
Tentativeness9:54
Master tentativeness and hedging in academic writing by using modal verbs, probability language, hedging verbs, and that statements to express cautious, careful claims.
Academic Style

Citation7:26
learn to cite sources in academic writing, give credit to authors with names, years, and page numbers, use appropriate citation language, and compile a bibliography.
Paraphrasing18:20
Paraphrasing teaches you to express others' ideas in your own words, showing understanding, by reading carefully, identifying key words, changing structure, using different vocabulary, rewriting, and citing sources.
Summarising14:15
Identify the main points from a text, then rewrite them in your own words, changing vocabulary and grammar through a seven-step process to produce concise summaries.
Using Sources

Organising paragraphs7:03
Identify the genre, outline sections, and plan main ideas to organize paragraphs with a clear structure, including an introduction and conclusion.
Elements of a document10:41
Identify the key elements of academic writing documents, including title, purpose, literature review, method, findings, and references. Explore genres such as proposals, reports, articles, case studies, and essays.
Topic sentences & information flow11:50
Organize paragraphs around a clear main idea with a topic sentence, then ensure smooth information flow by changing topics or expanding the same topic, illustrated with inflation and growth examples.
Organising

Purpose:

What is Academic Writing?

Most students have to write to write assignments or a thesis at the end of their study period.
This requires a certain style of writing. It is called academic writing.
Academic writing features:
- Give Reference to other sources of information (books/ articles/journals … anything!).
- Discussion and evaluation of information by the author (you!).
- impersonal, objective tone.
- logically organised.

Content:

4 Units (based on features of Academic Writing)
- The Writing Process
- Academic Style
- Using Sources
- Organising
Individual Lessons based on each unit