Keywords
academic language, academic prose, academic writing, complex prose, classroom writing
Submission Type
Research
Preview
Graff and Birkenstein (2018) provide great insights into producing quality academic prose. Likewise, they demystify the textual practices of academic writers by asking students to use (or borrow) patterns of academic language. When examining the patterns found within dozens of academic abstracts/summaries, the following patterns emerged. These "templates" (as we call them) or "chunks" (the term provided by students) may help to guide students to create more academic-style prose; likewise, these sorts of patterns may help students in the practice of writing more complex prose (see Figure 1: The Language of Abstracts).
Recommended Citation
Henry, Thomas and Pettersson, Jim
(2019)
"Using "Chunks" of Academic Language,"
The Utah English Journal: Vol. 47, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/uej/vol47/iss1/7