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Essential Academic Writing Skills - Coggle Diagram
Essential Academic Writing Skills
INTRODUCTION
General statement of the essay topic
Background from the literature
ARGUMENT STATEMENT
Comprehensive position
USE OF THE LITERATURE
Quotation with citation
use as an example
use to define
Paraphrase with citation
building the same ideas using the same source
building ideas from different sources
MAKING A STRONG ARGUMENT (SHOWING DISAGREEMENT)
If studies disagree, present the ideas you think are incorrect first
give reasons as to why these ideas are not likely to be correct
Present the ideas that you believe are correct.
PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE
Topic sentence
Background sentence
Introduce sentence
Paraphrased claim from the literature, with citations
A sentences of your own to elaborate and link
A sentence of your own to explain and link
PARAGRAPH COHESION
Connective : linking topic sentences
Cohesive device : referring to the same 'thing'
Connective : linking ideas
Cohesive device : labelling technique
Cohesive device : same point of view
CRITICAL THINKING
Evaluation of claims
Presenting academic evidence
Evaluating the amount of support for the evidence
CONCLUSION
Link to the background as a means of highlighting the importance of the topic
REFERENCE LIST
Begins on a new page
the reference list is organized alphabetically using the family name of the first author.
Use hanging indent
use all the authors' names in the order in which they are presented in the publication
when an article has a DOI, use it
when an article does not have a DOI, you may use the URL for the journal or the relevant database.