Learn How to Write Like an Academic

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How to Write Like an Academic – helpful academic writing tips; how to use formal language. A complete guide on how to write like a real academic with minimum effort and time consumption.

Did you know that students from colleges and universities write on average 92 pages of different academic papers in their first year of study? The style in which all of these student works are created is academic writing.

Even if you write in English every day a little – like emails or social media posts – that doesn’t mean you can sit down and write an academic paper right off the bat. Academic writing has its own rules: specific structure of texts, strict vocabulary, unique style.

However, writing like an academic is not as complicated as it seems. You can modify a simple sentence to make it look puzzling and academic. Perhaps you don’t believe me? Let’s practice writing a sentence together. This is where we’ll begin:

o Lily slept till noon and arrived late.

This sentence is straightforward, clear, and readable. But we need some rewriting to make it more academic-like. Let’s rewrite it.

TIP 1: nominalize active verbs, if there are any. So, in this case, well switch active verbs “slept” to “the sleeping” and “arrived” to “the arriving.”

TIP 2: make use of tautology. Check to see if your sentence uses the same information twice.

o Lily`s sleeping till noon that caused the arriving late preceded the arriving late that was caused by the sleeping till noon.

TIP 3: Find a synonym for a simple word, such as “caused.” Why not change “caused the arriving late” to “catalyzed the arriving late”?

TIP 4: give a subject to a word like “catalyze” for it to properly function as a verb. In this case, the verb can refer to Lily`s arriving. Let’s take it a step further:

TIP 5: you should use the passive voice. If the arriving late was caused by Lily`s sleeping till noon, then her non-punctuality catalyzed it. Perfect. All we have to do is insert a “that” somewhere in the sentence to make it complete.

TIP 6: be sure to throw in the noun “problematic” when referring to Lily`s sleeping till noon.

Alright, think that’s all. Let us now compare. This was our first sentence:

o Lily slept till noon and arrived late.

And now we have this work of art:

o The problematic of Lilly’s arriving late at the event was catalyzed by her non-punctuality by that caused the arriving late preceded the arriving late that was caused by the sleeping till noon.

 

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