Improve Your Academic Writing | 7 Useful Tips to Become a Better Writer ✍️
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- Do not underestimate the power and importance of writing. And you should not always write as though you're sending a text message.
Therefore, I want to talk to you about some useful tips that will help you greatly improve your academic writing. This is helpful for both university as well as more professional environments like a business setting.
Following these suggestions will allow you to transform your academic writing so that it's easier to read and understand.
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0:00 Intro to Academic Writing
0:46 Tip #1 - Be concise
3:10 Tip #2 - Organize your paper
4:41 Tip #3 - Avoid contractions, idioms, & colloquial expressions
6:22 Tip #4 - Vary your sentence structure
8:47 Tip #5 - Use the active voice
9:54 Tip #6 - Avoid repetition
11:44 Tip #7 - Proofread your writing
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1. Be concise
2. Use action verbs
3.easier to understand your writing
4. Help structure your writing
5. Avoid contraction
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I came from the future to say that my applied linguistics Professor failed me for my poor writing haha
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Pro tip: During the "concise" section add the clip of Kevin from The Office saying "why say lot word when few word do trick?" 😂
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@@InteractiveEng problem is, this point doesn’t help me much when the assignment requires a minimum of 2000 words.
Trick few do word
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Tip 1: Be concise
Tip 2: Organize your paper
Tip 3: Avoid contractions, colloquial & idioms
Tip 4: Vary your sentence structure (Simple, compound, complex and Compound+complex)
Tip 5: Use active voice
Tip 6: Avoid repetition
Tip 7: Proof reading
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Here is I got all things in under one roof!
1. Be concise
2. Use action verbs
3. Before writing, create an outline
4. Avoid contractions, idioms and colloquial expressions
5. Try to avoid phrasal verbs
6. Very your sentence structure
7. Use active voice more
8. Avoid repetition in words
9. Use different transition words
10. Proofread forward and backward
happy learning.......
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This is generally decent advice, I agree with the points about active voice and being concise, but I think the "no repetition" rule comes with some caveats. When students are told to not repeat themselves they tend to reach for a thesaurus to find some obscure synonym of what they are really trying to say. I think there is one rule of academic writing that you do not mention, and that is to pay close attention to verbs. Students like to use verbs like "indicates", "reflects", "notes" to vaguely gesture at an idea without having to precisely state it, or just because they think "indicates" is somehow more academic than "says". I also don't think there is anything inherently wrong with occasionally using "also" to relieve some of the weightiness of a word like "furthermore".
More generally, students should be encouraged above all else to be conscious of, and empathic to, the reader. Convey ideas efficiently, don't dress them up, find the most precise language to express what you want to say (and "precise" does not always mean "simple", a difficult concept may require novel uses of language to be expressed fully). Pretend your reader is there with you as you write, and you are trying to convince them of the validity of what you say as best as you can.
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Everything here comes with caveats. I thought that was just understood. Every rule or tip in English has exceptions. Passive Voice for example. It has many uses, but is not as powerful normally as Active Voice. He's making a brief video with basic tips; it's not going to be hours long and cover every possible caveat.
"Indicates" is more academic than, "says". ex: My history teacher says the Salem Witch Trials were started by some bored little girls. OR: Written documents indicate that a slave had told some stories of voodoo to some little girls and which sparked the Salem Witch Trials. It is not just the one word that is different, but that word changes the attitude which changes the other words.
@@L4ND.SH4RK The examples you're using here are different though: your first example is a person saying something, the second is of multiple documents, which can't really collectively "say" anything without sounding awkward.
"Researcher so and so says that X happened" is not wrong, or "unacademic". I'm also a fan of "claims", but I dislike "indicates" because of its vague modality.
I am getting low grades from my exams. But ,I study well. I thought the reason may be about how I am writing the answers. They are probably too messy and each sentence contains too much information. Thank you! I will try these tactics in my upcoming exams.
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After i write an essay
I come to understand that ,i should avoid colloquial word, observe sentence structure,be consise,use action words just to mention few.This is amazing lesson
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You are one of the best and kindest English teachers I have ever seen in my life! Thank you!
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Great lesson ❤ I found this really helpful. Thank you so much, Wes!🙏
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That is what I need. Now I should start practicing my writing. Thank you for the lesson! 👍👍👍
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Still after one year,what you have taught makes a sense to me.Realy,you have summarized for me in few minutes that i learned whole semester in my second semester course in university.I hope your still making these concise clips for life time student like me.keep it up!
I am preparing for my EILTS Test and am starting to feel confused about all this academic writing. I never imagined how difficult this can be. Thanks for the video. really great.
As a English learner, I am excited about avoiding phrasal verbs. That is why most Spanish words are usually similar to complex word than the confusing phrasal verbs.
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Today I was working when a UA-cam message arrived on my computer. It was a new video from InteractiveEnglish and I was curious about its content.
I was impatient to finish my work to listen to my teacher and take new paths of thought.
My expectations have been met and now I am writing, trying to follow the useful advice you gave us.
Thank you
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It took me a few years and lots of practice to learn what you explained in a few minutes! Excellent job!!!
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This was informative! Looking forward to learning more through watching more of your videos.
Awesome, thank you! 😊
Great tips and great lesson - thank you!
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although I practice English daily, watching your videos proves that I still have more to learn. THANK UUUUUUU
Step by step exposure has really noticeable note at larger aspect .
Every big things are essential relied on this video in the swathe of construction of sentence.
Superbly insights things
Thank you very much! This is very helpful. You are a good teacher!!
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Thank you! I haven't written anything academic in ages, and I've completely blanked on how to begin. This is so helpful to my studies. :)
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Definitely what i need. I've been looking for academic writing type of videos, to help develop skills, and help me with my writing
Fantastic video! Thank you so much for this information. So helpful. 😊
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It helps a lot. You were just a great teacher. You made so clear for me. Thank you.
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Thank you so much dear Wes. This is was smooth and useful. ♥️
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Thanks, your tips are really helpful to me. Especially for non English native speakers as me. I am quite luck to watch this video when I struggled with my academic writing. Thought I got a lot of trainings about major knowledge at university, I scarcely ever known anything about English academic writing. Appreciate for your generosity and you are my best writing teacher.
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Sentence structure varieties and concise writing are exactly what I need to work on!
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Thank you for your much needed videos! I hope to better my writing skills from your educational inputs, so thank you!
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Thank you for the great content on your videos , It really helps me a lot . I have been studying English for almost two years but right now I am practicing my writing skill since I will take the GED exam. I wish all of you good luck with your English !
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Very helpful, thank you ! 🙏🏻🌹
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Thank you so much for these vital tips. I really want to improve my formal writing, especially focusing on sentence flow. My problem is I have to mention laws signed by a person, and I often am stuck in repeatedly starting separate sentences with "On May 1, 2010, Donald signed a law creating a task force ...". Do you have any tips on how to improve the linking of these sentences into a single coherent paragraph and avoid repeated use of the sentence structure "On , signed a law ..."?
I have been practicing academic writing in English for 5 years. After watching this Video I got deep knowledge regarding the academic writing. Thank You so much
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You are such an amazing teacher. You are so clear and to the point.
Woow!!
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Wow, thank you! 😃
Thank you. Very helpful.
Thank you for the CONCISE summary . Writing is a process and everyone engages with this differently . There's always room for improvement and having another person proof read your writing is very helpful which completes this process.
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3:06 - idk about English but sometimes when it comes to my native and I have to write an essay I have to use some specific words that I don't like to use or didn't knew (and had to search for their explanation in dex in order to be able to use them somehow correctly) cs of academic standards etc.. so ith sometimes is unavoidable such things as using a more complicated term rather than a word with the same meaning (or a few) that you actually new
Thank you for your useful tips. You are the best!
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This is truly helpful. Thank you!
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Oh, woah, this video is very condensed in explaining formal writing. Thanks!
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Brilliant! This was on my mind and now it is clear. Had this challenge tweeting
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Thank you so much. I'm going an academic paper and started using some of your principles that greatly help.
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I would like to thank you for this concise content! As a beginner researcher, I really appreciate the effort you're putting on these videos. Do you have any tips for pepople who just started writing in English?
That's such a great lecture! Thank you so much 😃
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Thank you for sharing these tips. I've been battling with grammar since high school. I found this very helpful.
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nice advice - i’m better at creative writing/prose and have always struggled in academic writing, and being more concise is something that i really need to work on. thanks!
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Perfectly explained.
Thanks Wes! How useful💙👏
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Very useful tips for improving academic writings. Thanks a lot for tips.
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I’m trying to write academically everyday for back to school and my first topic is how to write academically so thank you for all the help!
Useful advice, thanks!
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I have watched dozens of videos and, this one really helped me. Thank you, keep going!
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Thses are super tips. Thank you.
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@11:45. Proofread, revise, proofread, revise... until you are satisfied. Thanks for the tips!
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helpful tips Sir, Thank you
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Thank you so much for teaching great tips. They are really helpful for English as second language people like me.
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Reputition, I was doing that all the time on my Academic papers! Thanks for the tip on other words besides using also. That tip really applies to me!
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I teach an intro to research course in an undergrad nursing program - this is so helpful, thank you!
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