Great video! I used to teach academic skills and essay writing at various UK universities, and in 2013 SAGE Publications released the first edition of my book, Academic Writing and Grammar for Students. Over the past year, I’ve been working on a third edition, which just released! The book is a practical, accessible guide to writing essays using clear, appropriate academic language. At the end of each chapter, I recommend some other resources that my readers might find useful. For this latest edition, I wanted to include more multimedia and video content, so I thought you might be interested to know that I recommended this video at the end of my chapter on Basic Conventions of Academic Writing, as I think it’s a really useful resource that my students at any level could learn a lot from. If you’re interested in taking a look at my book, it’s the third edition of Academic Writing and Grammar for Students by Alex Osmond. I run a Facebook page for the book and it’s available through Amazon and other booksellers. But I just wanted to let you know that I’ve highlighted this excellent video to my readers!
The lack of personal pronouns in writing depends highly on the discipline. There are ways to be academic and formal and use 'I'. I personally think that avoiding first person is pretentious and is not a professional practice when you need to state your opinion apart from a strict analysis, and both things are present in academic writing.
Thanks for this comment. Yes I quite agree. Personal pronoun use tends to be more accepted and common in humanities, less favoured in the sciences. On the related page on the website I mentioned that "Although rules are never a good idea for any form of study (because there are always exceptions), they are usually a good place to begin." So yes, there are exceptions. However, the rules are a useful guide when students are just starting on their journey of academic writing, before they have learned the nuances of different styles in different disciplines. The link to the original page on the website is here: www.eapfoundation.com/writing/style/
@@Eapfoundation Wow, thank you for your reply! And for the video itself! Despite my comment, I find it incredibly helpful and well comprised... I will present this video to a class tomorrow! (I hope they don't see this comment OMG). Also, I thought about the rules and the exceptions as well, because, I think, one is better at identifying where to be more flexible only by knowing the "strict" style before...
Hi. I didn't make this mindmap specifically into an infographic, but there are two infographics for academic idioms (one for speaking, one for writing), and also a worksheet for this video with the images in it. Links below. Idioms for writing infographic: www.eapfoundation.com/infographics/vocab/idioms/ Idioms for speaking infographic: www.eapfoundation.com/infographics/vocab/idiomsspeak/ Worksheet: www.eapfoundation.com/download/worksheets/idioms/EAP-Foundation-RU-vid-21-Idioms.pdf
