Professor Megan Bruce megan.bruce@durham.ac.uk
Director Of Combined Honours
Finding your academic voice: Use of nominalisations in academic writing
Bruce, Megan
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Abstract
This chapter explores how nominalizations (the use of noun forms) can operate alongside other techniques to increase the overall formality of a text. Drawing on searches using the Durham University FOCUS corpus, it guides students through some searches to explore and contrast the effects of using noun and verb forms in academic writing.
Citation
Bruce, M. (2023). Finding your academic voice: Use of nominalisations in academic writing. In Teaching English with Corpora: A Resource Book. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/b22833-68
| 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 | 64 |
| ISBN | 9781032253008 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.4324/b22833-68 |
| Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2231349 |
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