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    This document discusses aspects of academic and professional writing styles. It addresses preliminary reading and writing activities, including reflecting on missent messages. It also covers key factors that shape writing: topic, role, purpose, and audience. Finally, it outlines aspects of formal academic and professional language, including formality, objectivity, and explicitness through the use of signposts and precise language over informal or colloquial terms. The goal is clear, impartial communication for professional and academic audiences.

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    This document discusses aspects of academic and professional writing styles. It addresses preliminary reading and writing activities, including reflecting on missent messages. It also covers key factors that shape writing: topic, role, purpose, and audience. Finally, it outlines aspects of formal academic and professional language, including formality, objectivity, and explicitness through the use of signposts and precise language over informal or colloquial terms. The goal is clear, impartial communication for professional and academic audiences.

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    This document discusses aspects of academic and professional writing styles. It addresses preliminary reading and writing activities, including reflecting on missent messages. It also covers key factors that shape writing: topic, role, purpose, and audience. Finally, it outlines aspects of formal academic and professional language, including formality, objectivity, and explicitness through the use of signposts and precise language over informal or colloquial terms. The goal is clear, impartial communication for professional and academic audiences.

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    This document discusses aspects of academic and professional writing styles. It addresses preliminary reading and writing activities, including reflecting on missent messages. It also covers key factors that shape writing: topic, role, purpose, and audience. Finally, it outlines aspects of formal academic and professional language, including formality, objectivity, and explicitness through the use of signposts and precise language over informal or colloquial terms. The goal is clear, impartial communication for professional and academic audiences.

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    PRELIMINARIES OF READING AND WRITING FOR

    ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

    THE ACADEMIC WRITING STYLE


    Questions(preliminary activity)

    1. What were the difficulties in witing instructions for our


    audience?
    2. Do you think the recepients of your instructions will safely
    get to their destination? what difficulties do you think they
    will encounter and how can these be adderessed?
    3. If you can improve your set of directions, what revision
    can you make?
    Writing is a form of communication that is shaped by the
    following factors:

    1. Topic
    2. Role
    3. Purpose
    4. Audience
    Think and Share!

    Think of a SMS personal message in your social networking


    account or e-mail that was missent to you. Reflect on the
    details that made you realize that you were not the intended
    recipient of the message.
    Share your reflections in the class.
    ASPECTS OF A PROFESSIONAL AND
    ACDEMIC LANGGUAGE
    1. FORMALITY - language you use requires precision to
    make it legitimate.
    • Choosing expanded model forms over contracted forms
    such as cannot instead of can't.
    • Choosing one verb form over two-word verb such as
    damage instead of mess up.
    • Choosing expande form over their abbreviated eivalents
    such as as soon as possible instead of ASAP.
    • Avoiding colloquial/trite/idiomatic expression expressions
    such as kind of like.
    2. OBJECTIVITY - writing must be impersonal and maintain
    a certain level of social distance.
    • Avoiding the use of personal pronouns such as you,I, and
    we.
    • Avoiding rhetorical questions such as it marks “closeness”
    with the reader and constantly seeks his/her reflection
    attention.
    • Avoiding emotive language that shows biases and lessens
    objectivity.
    3. EXPLICITNESS
    - Academic writing demands the use of signposts that allow
    readers to trace the relationships in the parts of a study.
    examples:
    However
    This is due to
    This resulted in
    Similarly ín addition to
    For examples

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