The document discusses the features of academic writing in higher education, emphasizing clarity, precision, formality, and the careful construction of arguments. It highlights the use of specialist vocabulary, connectors for cohesion, and the variation in sentence structure. Additionally, it suggests that choices in writing style may vary based on the specific task or discipline conventions.

1. Academic Style
Features of Academic Writing in Higher Education
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2. ‘Academic style’ is more
than just a convention – it
can enable you to think
more logically, more
clearly and more
realistically as you work on
an assignment.

3. Generally speaking,
academic style is...
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4. clear
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5. precise and brief
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6. formal
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7. makes carefully considered claims
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8. makes use
of other
research to
build an
argument
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9. The language of academic
writing in particular...

10. uses specialist vocabulary
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11. uses connectors to increase
cohesion
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12. uses a variety of long and
short sentences
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13. avoids contractions,
colloquial expressions and
slang
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14. However, within these
conventions, you can also
make choices depending
on the nature of your
writing task or your
discipline’s writing
conventions.

15. Such choices include...
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16. whether you use the first
person pronouns (e.g. 'I' or
'we')
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17. whether you
use the
active or
passive
voice
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18. how you use signposting words
and which kind you favour
(however, firstly, secondly...)
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19. the structure of individual
paragraphs and the use of
topic sentences
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20. Enabling students to realise their full academic potential and achieve excellence
http://services.unimelb.edu.au/academicskills
Academic Skills
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