What is academic discourse?
During your time as an undergraduate, you will probably have become aware of a style of presentation that has slowly influenced your essay writing. Reading academic textbooks and journal articles, attending lectures, and being part of a student community has exposed you to a habit of writing that might be termed ‘academic discourse’. You will have already begun to assimilate some principles of this style into your own work. Do not be alarmed at the notion of assimilation! This is not a covert ploy to enforce the rules of a language police upon your creativity, nor is it about restricting your expression, interest and understanding of a subject. Academic discourse is simply a construct to denote a set of norms and conventions, habits of writing, which make your work intelligible, interesting, and engaging to your reader. It assumes that writers and readers form part of a community and can discuss concepts and theories that can be explained, examined, and if necessary contested, within m
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