Analysis Paper Draft • Introduction • Why should the average person care about your topic? • Description • Explain how this policy/practice/service works • Purpose & History • What need does it address? • Describe the evolution of the policy/practice/service • Advantages & Disadvantages • What are the positive effects? • What are the negative effects? • Conclusion
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Analysis Paper Draft
• Introduction• Why should the average person
care about your topic?
• Description• Explain how this
policy/practice/service works
• Purpose & History• What need does it address?• Describe the evolution of the
policy/practice/service
• Advantages & Disadvantages• What are the positive effects?• What are the negative effects?
• Conclusion
ACADEMIC WRITING
Formal Writing
Audience
Purpose
Organization
Style
Flow
Presentation
Language Focus
1. Eliminating Bureaucratese
2. Vocabulary Shift
3. Formal Grammar Style
1. AVOID BUREAUCRATESE
Bureaucratese• A style of speech or writing characterized by jargon,
euphemisms, and abstractions; held to be typical of bureaucrats.
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• The conventions of standard regimen fulfilled day-to-day by personas depict their low-income subsistence.
• The characters’ income was not enough to meet their needs.
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• At a loss in terms of knowledge and literacy, the personalities did not clinch sufficient intuition.
• They could not reason well because they were uneducated.
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• Having dilemmas at what procedure to do to secure food, all is done to cater to the characters’ gastronomic cravings.
• The starving characters undertook desperate measures in order to eat.
2. PRACTICE BREVITY
Brevity is the key.
• Avoid: This product is the single greatest technological wonder of our time. Nothing that has ever been invented compares to the significance it represents to civilization. Nothing will ever be the same.
• Prefer: This product will change the world.
3. SHIFT VOCABULARY
Avoid Simplistic Terms
SIMPLE
• Cute• Good• Bad
• Adorable• Beneficial• Terrible
SOPHISTICATED
Avoid Compound Verbs
COMPOUND
• Come out• Throw up• Powered through
• Exit• Vomit• Persevere
EFFICIENT
Vocabulary Shift
• According to some biologists, coming up with clear proof of decreasing numbers of frogs has been hard.
• According to some biologists, offering clear proof of decreasing numbers of frogs has been difficult.
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• The six leading causes of death in the U.S. are mainly brought on by overeating, a lack of exercise, and cigarette smoking.
• Scientists are looking into innovative ways to combat AIDS.