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Academic writing style - Coggle Diagram
Academic writing style
Making Writing More Formal
Negative forms
"little", "no"
"has been unrealistic"
"not much", "not any"
"has not been realistic"
Slang words
"extremely", "increasingly"
"really", "more and more"
Punctuation
Informal
Formal
Contractions
"do not", "there is"
"don't", "there's"
Unspecific language
thing(s), stuff
good, bad, nice
Multi-part verbs
Multi-part verb
One-word verb
Pronouns
"it"
"This Graph Shows That"
"you", "I"
Direct quesions
Rhetorical question
Making Writing More Complex
Nominalization and creation of phrases
Function words
preposition
conjunction
article
interjuction
commonly-used types of phrase
noun + noun
hyphenation of nouns
adjective + noun
Content words
adjective
number
pronoun
verb
noun
adverb
Complex sentences
Simple sentences: Subjuct-verb-object
Complex sentences: Relative clauses
Punctuation
Combine two sentences
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