Academic language
Use simple straight forward language
- Integrate specialist and discipline vocabulary without being pompous.
- If your discipline prefers very formal abstract writing, nominalisation (using noun form of verbs) can be used to express actions as concepts.
- Avoid wordiness, redundancy, tautology and round-about phrasing.
- Avoid emotive or discriminatory (non-inclusive) language.
To do
- Redundancy (Capital Community College Foundation)
- Non-discriminatory (inclusive) language (Charles Darwin University Study Skills)
More info
- Nominalisation (UOW UniLearning)
- Writing concisely (Study Support, USQ Library)
- Tautology (English.com)