Blend Academic and Colloquial Styles
T or F: Writing using your normal talking voice will get your point across clearer than if you were to use bigger more complex words that start to confuse your writing.
T
you mean i can just ________ _____ that way?!
say it
_____________ writing doesn't mean setting aside your own voice
a) smart
b) school
c) academic
academic
Writing is generally not a process in which we start with a ____________ ___________ idea in our heads that when we simply transcribe in an unchanged state onto our page.
fully formed
Mastering academic writing does not have mean completely abandoning your _________ voice, it means creating a new voice that draws on the voice you already have.
normal
instead of using "in other words", try to use...
a) so basically, this is why ...
b) essentially, X argues that ...
c) clearly X is trying to state ...
b) essentially, X argues that ...
T or F: using more complex words will get be a better grade because I am showing my level of academics
F
Writing more often means a ___________ in which we use the writing process to figure out what our idea is.
discovery
The goal of this chapter was to ________ the common misconception of overusing big and complicated words in your writing.
counteract
Using simple, everyday words will help to ________ your complex topics often talked about in essays.
a) clarify
b) explain
c) expand
a) clarify
mix up you're writing with other styles of ____.
a) punctuation
b) language
c) words
b) language
Often, writers are surprised to find that what we end up with on our page is ______________ different from what we were trying to say initially.
a) not
b) sort of
c) significantly
c) significantly