The document provides guidance on developing academic language. It presents three versions of a short text about classroom behavior, with each version improving upon the last. The original uses informal language, while the second version introduces more academic terminology. The third and best version cites sources to support its claims and frames the discussion in a more objective manner expected in academic writing. The document then provides examples of rewriting phrases from a less to a more academic style. It concludes by asking the student to fill in transition words and phrases to improve the flow and cohesion of an academic passage about Alan Turing.