Mechanics of Writing

Mechanics of Writing:-

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This blog task is in response to the task assigned by Megha Ma'am as part of thinking activity. In this we have to give our understanding of given videos after watching that.

Video-1

What is Academic Writing:-

Academic writing is a formal style of writing used in universities and scholarly publications. Academics mostly write texts intended for publication, such as journal articles, reports, books, and chapters in edited collections. 

Non- Academic Writing:-

Non-Academic articles are written for the mass public. They are published quickly and can be written by anyone. Their language is informal, casual and may contain slang. The author may not be provided and will not have any credentials listed. Later, Message and unorganised writing was called Non- Academic Writing.

Formal Writing:- In formal Writing you use words like - I DO NOT instead of I DON'T. In formal Writing you can't express emotions. When we talk about formality then we need formal vocabulary for that, in that you can't give any statement regarding things. Formal text contains - formal vocabulary, contractive form, objective, passive voice and citation.

In informal writing you are free to give a statement. For example - I am going to dance with my friends.

When you write academic writing - you divide your text into paragraph - first topic, supporting sentence for developing paragraph. For example,

"There is an impressive tendency among the youth to come to social media".

Supporting Argument,

Why are youth addicted to social media - what does social media have that attracts youth's attention.

You can start your paragraph from topical sentence to supporting sentence, then you have to conclude with concluding sentence- not repetition of topical sentence but summary of your idea and your arguments.

What are the aspect of academic of Academic Writing:

Critical Writing which we used in Academic Writing, Writing critically means best use of material which we confronted, but mostly people are not able to write critically rather they write summary of that.

In research there are two types of questions:-  

You question the argument of critics - you raise the question to what the writer is saying, then you tried to analyse it with your knowledge and then reach to a one decision.

Video - 2

The Basics of Academic Writing:-

• What not to do 
• What can be done 
• Web tools 
• Case study

In academic writing there are certain kind of scale

• Writing Scale
• Technical Scale
• Publication Scale

Avoid Massive Jargonization :-

Use of technical writing is good but don't make your writing jorgonize, that readers can not understand.

Carefully choose the topic in which you are interested and catch your attention. Do not repeat your arguments and use available digital tools. 

There are many digital tools which became helpful to you for research writing.

Avoiding Plagiarism

• Plagiarism is the theft of someone else's ideas and work. It is the incorporation of facts, ideas, or specific language that are not common knowledge, are taken from another source, and are not properly cited.

Types:-

• Verbatim or Rephrasing without acknowledgments

• Inappropriate collaboration

• Other assistance without acknowledgments

• Cheating (copying others' work)

• Duplication (submitting same work for different courses/programs/degrees)

• Research fabrication and falsification

• Using computer networks for false attribution

Summing up:-

•  Linguistic choices - the "pitching" of the paper/dissertation/thesi
• Discourse choices - how do we organise it, lines of argument etc.
•  Topic choices - availability/non-availability of material; synchronic/diachronic.
• Ethical choices - plagiarism etc.

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1)Formulating Propositions/ Defining:-

Formulating a proposition/ defining often takes the following linguistic form:

Key term + verb (be)/ is defined as/ can be defined as/ may be defined as/ is often defined as + [in] which/that/where/ when + defining features.

Here's an example:

• The program of gynocritics is to construct a female framework for the analysis of women's literature, to develop new models based on the study of female experience, rather than to adapt male models and theories.

2) Genre - Classification - CARS - Creating A Reservation State 

In any kind of academic writing this model is used. Any academic writing began with definition, purpose - why I am doing this , literature review - which tells you where this literature review is located, it tells you about the method and how it is going, it argues for or against certain theories and models through generated new models and then conclusions.

3) Organising Idea:-

There are many tools which help us in organising our ideas. For example - Mindly and Mindmup.

4) Paraphrasing:-

Develop your own voice in your writing.

5)How to write Research Paper Or Thesis:-

1Introduction

2) The Thesis Statement of Topic Sentence

3) Contextualise Material

4) Literature Review

5) Basic Defination

6)Noun Phrase and Nominalisations:-

In 1835, Lord Macaulay who was an essayist, historian and colonial administrator, produced his 'Minute on Education'.

•This report focuses on countries which have high birth rates.

In Britain in 1807 a bill was defeated which would have brought elementary education to everyone.

• Many older people lived in rural areas which meant that they did not have access to good healthcare.

• This information enables the formulation of a new theory.

From the given example we can conclude that we can not use only names d but some basic details and information required with noun in academic writing.

Stance :- 

Stance is basically point of view that we provide.

The internet and the World Wide Web have provided a new medium for culture, generally labelled cyberculture, because it exists in cyberspace.

The internet and the Web made possible a culture apparently free of many of the constraints that operated in other media.

It may be argued that Sherry Turkle (1997) supports the view that virtual subjects can become free of themselves.

 Arguably, a 'technopower spiral' has brought about control by a technical elite.

Hedging Language:-

Academic texts frequently discuss theories, evaluate evidence, and propose solutions, and mostly these things are not absolute facts. This means that authors often 'hedge" or soften what they say to avoid sounding too certain. They use modal verbs (can, may), verbs (seem, appear), adverbs (arguably, significantly), adverbials (on occasion, to some extent), using impersonal structures (it, there) etc.

Hedging Language in which you either agree or you can say that there are other point of view, don't say finally this is ,but remain window open for readers. Phenomenal of keeping window open called Hedging Language.

Passivization:-

In academic writing it is more common to use passive writing. You always say that, 

'My way of Classifying' but what is hedging is to say - 'This is the way of Classifying'  

There are three type of structure of argument:-

Structure -A

In which you provide an argument and then you provide another argument with evidence and then you give explanation for that and then you say that I am agree with second argument than first one. 

This structure mostly used by researcher in academic writing.

Structure -B

This is like 'I have an argument provide evidence for that , then i provide second argument and provide evidence against it and then after i provide my own argument which is third argument where I conclude that i provide second argument with i am not agree but the first one with i am agree and it is supported by third argument.

Structure -C

In this you have supporting argument -evidence, in this you don't make any argument but provide supporting argument and evidence to prove your argument. This gave general structure of argument.

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