Advanced Academic Writing: Tips and Ideas
This podcast is on the one hand dedicated to my students in the advanced writing course, and on the other to you, who are interested in understanding about technical writing from a linguistic perspective.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 9
- Years Active
- 2021
5-6/13 Week 5 & 6 Summary: Grammar to Make Sense and Choice
(The text version of this podcast can be found here.)
This podcast summarises the ideas that have been covered in the first seven weeks of the semester so far. Yes, it's about writing, but it's also …
00:06:58 |
Sun 17 Oct 2021
4/13 Week 4 Summary: Nominalisation
(The text version of this podcast can be found here.)
Over the past week, we explore one of the most important paraphrasing strategies: nominalisation. In this short podcast, I recapitulated some rea…
00:04:22 |
Sat 02 Oct 2021
3/13 Week 3 Summary: Shell Nouns, Superordinate Nouns, and Reflections on Your First Writing
This week we finally started writing a summary text using some grammar knowledge to help. As academic writing favours the noun, we talked about shell nouns and superordinate nouns. Also, I manage to …
00:06:39 |
Fri 24 Sep 2021
2/13 Week 2 Summary: Reviewing Structure of Summary Texts, Paragraphs & Paragraph Openers
Time flies, and it's already the end Week 2! Before we proceed to the more specific language patterns of Summary writing, let's wrap up with a review of what we've covered so far. Enjoy your weekend,…
00:03:05 |
Sat 18 Sep 2021
Grammar Point: Tense Choice in Writing
This short podcast talks about choosing tenses when writing essays, in that you understand more about what tense to use in particular situations and why consistency in tense choice is important.
00:06:29 |
Fri 17 Sep 2021
1/13 - Week 1 Summary: Reflective Thoughts
In this podcast, I wrapped up the first week of the semester, some ideas of which have also been in the previous podcast. I also gave some reflective thoughts about what learning means, and what it t…
00:04:57 |
Fri 10 Sep 2021
What makes academic writing "academic"?
Inducted into the course, you might have understood what to expect and to achieve herein. Now we move on to the very question, as to what makes your writing "academic": Is being "academic" a language…
00:07:41 |
Tue 31 Aug 2021
Welcoming fellow LCS4453 students
This episode marks the start of the podcast series and the semester, and serves to briefly introduce to you social sciences students what the writing course is about. Do listen till the end of this e…
00:05:14 |
Mon 30 Aug 2021
Introducing "corpus": a tool for finding language patterns
When reading texts for inspiration on how you can write your own essays, you can be a "detective", examining the language patterns of a large bulk of texts from experts. This text database is called …
00:05:51 |
Tue 24 Aug 2021
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