ACADEMIC WRITING
COURSE
8th March-26th April 2013
             Course Instructor:
Libor Štěpánek
lstep@fss.muni.cz

aims
-to present basic principles of academic writing in the context of postgraduate studies and
research
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-to engage postgraduate students and novice researchers in discussion on academic writing
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•- to practise academic writing

WHAT IS ACADEMIC WRITING?
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•Who?
–Who is writing? Who is the audience?
•What?
–What is the writing about?
•Why?
–Why is the writing done?

academic audience
audience


academic audience
audience


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•video
massey

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•video
paper

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style
•       (Adapted from: http://www.chemistry-blog.com/category/fun/page/2/)


concise writing
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Chromatography is an experimental technique used by chemists as a means to help them separate
different compounds in experimental samples using the affinity of the compound for the mobile phase
as well as the affinity of the compound for the stationary phase.
[42 words]

concise writing
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Chromatography is an experimental technique used by chemists as a means to help them separate
different compounds in experimental samples using the affinity of the compound for the mobile phase
as well as the affinity of the compound for the stationary phase.
[42 words]
Chromatography is an experimental technique used by chemists to separate compounds in experimental
samples using the affinity of the compound for the mobile phase as well as the affinity of the
compound for the stationary phase.
       [36 words]

concise writing
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Chromatography is an experimental technique used by chemists as a means to help them separate
different compounds in experimental samples using the affinity of the compound for the mobile phase
as well as the affinity of the compound for the stationary phase.
[42 words]
Chromatography is an experimental technique used by chemists to separate compounds in experimental
samples using the affinity of the compound for the mobile phase as well as the affinity of the
compound for the stationary phase.
       [36 words]
Chromatography is used to separate compounds using the affinity of the compound for the mobile
phase as well as the affinity of the compound for the stationary phase.                    [28
words]

concise writing
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Chromatography is an experimental technique used by chemists as a means to help them separate
different compounds in experimental samples using the affinity of the compound for the mobile phase
as well as the affinity of the compound for the stationary phase.
[42 words]
Chromatography is an experimental technique used by chemists to separate compounds in experimental
samples using the affinity of the compound for the mobile phase as well as the affinity of the
compound for the stationary phase.
       [36 words]
Chromatography is used to separate compounds using the affinity of the compound for the mobile
phase as well as the affinity of the compound for the stationary phase.                    [28
words]
Chromatography separates compounds based on the affinity of the compound for the mobile phase
relative to the stationary phase.
                                               [19 words]
                                               [42 words]

hedging
–video
humpry

hedging
–Sir Humphrey: Unfortunately, although the answer was indeed clear, simple, and straightforward,
there is some difficulty in justifiably assigning to it the fourth of the epithets you applied to
the statement, inasmuch as the precise correlation between the information you communicated and the
facts, insofar as they can be determined and demonstrated, is such as to cause epistemological
problems, of sufficient magnitude as to lay upon the logical and semantic resources of the English
language a heavier burden than they can reasonably be expected to bear.
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–                                         ….you lied.
humpry

hedging
•  This system prevents attacks on both server and client sides.
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• According to simulation studies, under some circumstances this system may reduce certain types of
attacks on both server and client sides.
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It could be concluded that some evidence seems to suggest that this system might, under some
circumstances, have the tendency to reduce at least certain types of attacks on both server and
client side.
•                                        OVERDONE!

title
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massey