Professor Megan Bruce megan.bruce@durham.ac.uk
Director Of Combined Honours
"Don't write like that!" Avoiding contractions in academic writing
Bruce, Megan
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Abstract
This chapter aims to identify common areas of informality in academic writing and suggest alternatives that are more appropriate. Focusing particularly on extended writing in the sciences, but with applicability to a wider range of contexts, it helps to focus students towards concrete changes they might make to address feedback around issues of academic voice.
Citation
Bruce, M. (2023). "Don't write like that!" Avoiding contractions in academic writing. In Teaching English with Corpora - A resource book. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/b22833-61
| Online Publication Date | Oct 26, 2022 |
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| Publication Date | 2023 |
| Deposit Date | Feb 9, 2024 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Book Title | Teaching English with Corpora - A resource book |
| Chapter Number | 57 |
| ISBN | 9781032253008 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.4324/b22833-61 |
| Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2231338 |
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