Impactful Academic Writing
Broaden your reach and maximize your impact by writing clearly and concisely about your research. This course helps you learn the fundamental principles of clear writing.
Introduction
FREE PREVIEWThe Struggle of Academic Writing
FREE PREVIEWResources
Creating a shared vocabulary
Active Voice and Passive Voice
Active and Passive voice: a moral choice?
Active and Passive Voice exercises
Parallelism
Parallelism is everywhere
Parallelism practice
The four levels of writing
The Writing Process
Note taking and Outlining
Conscious Prewriting exercise
Example outline format
Writing and Editing tips
Editing Code
Structuring the Methods Section
Writing the methods section
Part 2 overview
The Science of Scientific Writing
Information flow
Information flow practice
Flow in paragraphs
Linking words handout
Linking Words practice
Dealing with numbers
Writing the results section
Part 3 overview
Verbs and formality
Formality practice
Punctuation
Relative Clauses
Swales' Moves for Introductions
Identify the moves
Writing the introduction
Part 4 overview
Wordiness
Wordiness examples
Differences between similar words
Easy to remove wordiness
How to replace wordy expressions (reference)
Verb tenses
The Curse of Knowledge and Chunking
Swales' moves for discussions
Writing the discussion
Part 5 Overview
Jargon and Acronyms
Jargon and Acronym examples
A tale of Two Englishes
American English vs British English
Writing Checklist
Putting it all together: practice with a text about sustainability
Putting it all together: practice with a text about plants
Sample cover letter
Abstracts
Sample abstracts, two formats
Writing the abstract
Course Evaluation Survey