Summary Academic Knowledge and Skills
Book:
Essential Academic Skills
by K. Turner
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Academic Language support....................................1
Chapter 4 Reading in an academic context...............................1
Chapter 5 Basic Academic Writing skills...................................2
Chapter 6: Further Academic Skills: Working on an Assignment.4
Chapter 12: Doing Small-scale Exploratory Research Projects. . .5
Chapter 7 Assays and Reflective reviews..................................7
, Chapter 2 Academic Language support
Academic register:
Use of disciplinary terminology
Knowing disciplinary terms means knowing the relevant
content in your discipline
Dense use of general academic words
The Academic Word List (AWL) is useful collection om most
frequently found words in academic texts.
Academic style
Often more complex than non-academic, because the
sentences are elaborated (more expanded). The use more
clauses, like when, wich, who and and.
Creating Coherence
Coherence is from importance for academic text, because this
makes a good and clear story.
Can be achieved in four main ways:
Referring backwards to the thing the text discusses by
repeating its name in various names.
Referring back to a section in the text with a ‘’label’’ (the
argument/the claim)
Using the same point of view
Using connectives to produce links in meaning.
Book:
Essential Academic Skills
by K. Turner
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Academic Language support....................................1
Chapter 4 Reading in an academic context...............................1
Chapter 5 Basic Academic Writing skills...................................2
Chapter 6: Further Academic Skills: Working on an Assignment.4
Chapter 12: Doing Small-scale Exploratory Research Projects. . .5
Chapter 7 Assays and Reflective reviews..................................7
, Chapter 2 Academic Language support
Academic register:
Use of disciplinary terminology
Knowing disciplinary terms means knowing the relevant
content in your discipline
Dense use of general academic words
The Academic Word List (AWL) is useful collection om most
frequently found words in academic texts.
Academic style
Often more complex than non-academic, because the
sentences are elaborated (more expanded). The use more
clauses, like when, wich, who and and.
Creating Coherence
Coherence is from importance for academic text, because this
makes a good and clear story.
Can be achieved in four main ways:
Referring backwards to the thing the text discusses by
repeating its name in various names.
Referring back to a section in the text with a ‘’label’’ (the
argument/the claim)
Using the same point of view
Using connectives to produce links in meaning.
