Academic Writing

ACADEMIC

WRITING

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Being Reflective

The resource is easy to adapt for students at different levels. It can be a bit boring if

used for long periods of time.

Being Critically Reflective

The resource is easy to adapt for students at different levels. For example, questions

can be made more complicated and the amount of questions can be increased as

students become more able.

It can be a bit boring if used for long periods of time, so the insertion of illustrations

and a break at the mid-way point may stop this boredom from setting in.

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Pick one of the objects below:

Reflect upon it. Use no more than 5 sentences to write your response.

Now critically reflect upon your object. Use no more than 5 sentences to write your response.

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First, second and third person writing

1. I like using ICT in my teaching practice.

2. You like using ICT in your teaching practice.

3. Many teachers like using ICT in their teaching practice.

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Rewrite this sentence in the third person:

I find that when teaching it helps to have a sense of humour, a bottle of gin, my sanity and a pen at all times.

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Rewrite this sentence in the first person:

Practitioners have always found their staff rooms to be a place of refuge if their students have been overly boisterous.

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This is a genuine example of academic writing. Is it successful? Discuss.

The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.

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An example of successful academic writing

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Task 1:

Yeah, but no, but yeah, but no, but…rewrite the text below using academic rigour.

So we went to the college in st Austell a few weeks, ago, yeah? And we decided to use computers and stuff to find out about the history of Australian soap operas, yeah? My favourites neighbours but I here that a few people like home and away but I’m not keen on that because I reckon it went off the boil after Alf Stewart left, like and I was really gob-smacked to see that neighbours has been on for like hundreds of years and started back in like 1985 or something? It started on channel 7 and I remember that daphne and Des were in it and Mrs Mangel and it is in a place called Ramsay Street but home and away started a bit later in like 1987 and is near a beach called Summer Bay? Soap operas in Australia is not as depressing or miserable as they are here like Eastenders which is really really really miserable and they are all mingin’ and why is it that they all hate each other in our soap operas but everyone likes each other in Australia and why can’t we have happy programmes here like?

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Suggested response to paragraph one:

“A research team visited Cornwall College’s St Austell campus during the summer break. Their intention was to use the facilities on offer to research the history and meaning of Australian soap operas, with special reference made to “Neighbours” ( a particular favourite with one of the research team) and “Home and Away”.

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Suggested response to paragraph two:

“The team were initially surprised to learn that Neighbours was first broadcast by popular television channel “Channel 7” over twenty years ago (in 1985), introducing the ever-enduring characters Des and Daphne Clark in its first few minutes. Its stable mate and main rival “Home and Away” enjoyed its premier just two years later, opting for a beach location (“Summer Bay”) rather than the suburban cosiness of Neighbours’ Ramsey Street.

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Suggested response to paragraph three:

“It is widely believed that Australian soap operas are much lighter and perhaps “fluffier” in tone than our own soap operas which audiences believe are becoming more gloomy and depressing by the year. Many viewers are now asking the question: “Why can’t we have happier programmes too?”

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USING THE HARVARD REFERENCING SYSTEM

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Citing Quotes and the UoP Study Skills Toolbox

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References Your list of references should be set out in

alphabetical order. Where you refer to more than one work by the same author, these should be set out in chronological sequence.

Background Reading The reference list should include only those

works you have cited in your text. If you have good reasons for citing works in addition to your references, this should be done on a separate list headed “Bibliography”.

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How to Reference a Book

Surname Initials of author

Date Title Name of publisher

Location of

publisherBlyton E (1936) Five go to

Glastonbury and Buy Bad Acid

Hodder London

Blyton, E, (1936), Five go to Glastonbury and Buy Bad Acid, London, Hodder

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How to Reference a Web Page – Author Available

Surname Initials of author

Date Title of web page

URL Date Accessed

Morrissey S (2005) I’m as Miserable

as Sin

www.imamiserable

oldgit.co.uk

Date accessed: 25th Dec

2007

Morrissey, S, (2005), I’m as Miserable as Sin (web page), www.imamiserableoldgit.co.uk, date accessed: 25th Dec 2007

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How to Reference a Web Page – Author Unavailable

Title of web page

Date URL Date Accessed

How Many More Times do I Have

to do This Bloody

Referencing?

(2001)(or date

unknown)

www.referencingsucks.com

Date accessed: 25th Dec 2007

Author unknown, How Many More Times do I Have to do This Bloody Referencing?, (2001 / date unknown), www.referencingsucks.com, Date

accessed: 25th Dec 2007

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Task 2. Using a book and a web site that contain information relevant to this course.

Write one direct and one indirect quote correctly in the spaces provided.

Cite quotes correctly - for example: (Humperdink, 1982, p23)

Reference each quote using the Harvard Referencing System

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Interactive Quiz

Task 4