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Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical ... Active voice uses fewer words than passive voice to explain the same concept. It also introduces argument components sequentially—subject, claim, and then evidence—whereas passive ...

The point is not for you and your peers to produce identical pieces of writing , but to provide a shared framework of communication that allows specialists within a field to access information, ideas and concepts quickly and easily. Academic writing uses a ...

T here is no end to denunciations of academic writing. You’ve likely read one recently. They usually deride jargon and theory and despair over turgid and impenetrable prose. Most recently the ...

In the study, I interviewed two Nigerian students who had arrived in America less than two years before the interview. To gain a better understanding of their experiences, I conducted semi-structured interviews. Both students came from academic backgrounds in Nigeria, where writing is more descriptive and narrative.