Deconstructing Academic Texts
Students analyse the features of academic writing, including objective tone, nominalisation, and complex sentence structures. They learn to extract key information from academic sources.
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Students analyse the features of academic writing, including objective tone, nominalisation, and complex sentence structures. They learn to extract key information from academic sources.
Key Questions
- What distinguishes academic writing from other text types?
- How is nominalisation used to create an objective tone?
- How do we identify the main thesis of an academic article?
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