Improve Your Academic Writing | 7 Useful Tips to Become a Better Writer ✍️

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1. Be concise 2. Use action verbs 3.easier to understand your writing 4. Help structure your writing 5. Avoid contraction

Tip 1: Be concise Tip 2: Organize your paper Tip 3: Avoid contractions, colloquial & idioms Tip 4: Vary your sentence structure (Simple, compound, complex and Compound+complex) Tip 5: Use active voice Tip 6: Avoid repetition Tip 7: Proof reading

Pro tip: During the "concise" section add the clip of Kevin from The Office saying "why say lot word when few word do trick?" 😂

Who is here because they have an essay to write?

This is generally decent advice, I agree with the points about active voice and being concise, but I think the "no repetition" rule comes with some caveats. When students are told to not repeat themselves they tend to reach for a thesaurus to find some obscure synonym of what they are really trying to say. I think there is one rule of academic writing that you do not mention, and that is to pay close attention to verbs. Students like to use verbs like "indicates", "reflects", "notes" to vaguely gesture at an idea without having to precisely state it, or just because they think "indicates" is somehow more academic than "says". I also don't think there is anything inherently wrong with occasionally using "also" to relieve some of the weightiness of a word like "furthermore". More generally, students should be encouraged above all else to be conscious of, and empathic to, the reader. Convey ideas efficiently, don't dress them up, find the most precise language to express what you want to say (and "precise" does not always mean "simple", a difficult concept may require novel uses of language to be expressed fully). Pretend your reader is there with you as you write, and you are trying to convince them of the validity of what you say as best as you can.

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Here is I got all things in under one roof! 1. Be concise 2. Use action verbs 3. Before writing, create an outline 4. Avoid contractions, idioms and colloquial expressions 5. Try to avoid phrasal verbs 6. Very your sentence structure 7. Use active voice more 8. Avoid repetition in words 9. Use different transition words 10. Proofread forward and backward happy learning.......

That is what I need. Now I should start practicing my writing. Thank you for the lesson! 👍👍👍

I come to understand that ,i should avoid colloquial word, observe sentence structure,be consise,use action words just to mention few.This is amazing lesson

I am preparing for my EILTS Test and am starting to feel confused about all this academic writing. I never imagined how difficult this can be. Thanks for the video. really great.

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I am getting low grades from my exams. But ,I study well. I thought the reason may be about how I am writing the answers. They are probably too messy and each sentence contains too much information. Thank you! I will try these tactics in my upcoming exams.

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As a English learner, I am excited about avoiding phrasal verbs. That is why most Spanish words are usually similar to complex word than the confusing phrasal verbs.

Yes, thank you for your tips. However, one of the critical factors contributing to your academic writing is the material. Materiality plus the mentioned tips equate to the success of your writing skills.

Thank you so much! i have just failed an assignment and been finding it hard to find someone to help. I decided to find help myself and i must say you have made life so much easier for me. :)

It took me a few years and lots of practice to learn what you explained in a few minutes! Excellent job!!!

It helps a lot. You were just a great teacher. You made so clear for me. Thank you.

Great lesson ❤ I found this really helpful. Thank you so much, Wes!🙏