Starting from Wednesday August 30 until Friday September 1, 2017, we have an interesting class which is called the English Academic Writing I. This class was conducted by Prof. Rick Lavin from Prefectural University of Kumamoto, belongs to Dept. of English Language & Literature. He came from UK and has been 30 years living in Japan.
INTRODUCTION
A. There are 3 Principles in Writing:
- Write frequently and fluently
- Deal with errors efficiently
- Learn how to transition from everyday to academic writing styles
B. Types of Writing:
- Writing a self-introduction
- everyday style
- Writing book reviews
- transitional style
- Academic writing
- academic style
SUMMARY
A. Use textbooks and other reference works:
- Academic Vocabulary in Use
- Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts, etc.
- others
B. Use web resources and tools
1. General web tools:
- word lists
- phrase banks
- AWL exercises
- etc.
- AWL Highlighter
- AWL Gapmaker
- Compleat Lexical Tutor
C. Read a lot
- Native speakers build their (generally unconscious) knowledge of phrases through leisure reading
- Read papers in our field, fiction, magazines, etc.
- Sometimes shift us focus to form
Source:
- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B02hXKojBPJqTXhtWk83V3lBOUk
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ydtfo5s3oXT1hUvWX5HuRImstbnVJCdOKsyPKcUn8dE/edit#slide=id.g2488c4437d_0_135
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