EOSC 116 Study Guide - Apposition, Academic Writing, Glossary Of Cricket Terms
13 Apr 2014
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Genre has been reconceptualized as involving situation and form, and thus requires a type of communication, but also the situation that the communication serves (traditionally defined in terms of form and used for categorization). Ex 1: texting emoticons, abbreviations and acronyms. Ex 2: for sale advertisements incomplete sentnces, abbreviations, adjectives, etc. Identify as many characteristics as you can think of, and describe their purpose. (flip through academic. Reading if you need to find some examples). Research genres use writing that is concise and clear (as opposed to vague or wordy), is logical, uses signposts for direction, and uses terminology related to (and often only found in) the specific subject or field of concern. Identify several ways in which an academic paper might cite a source. Citation is the customary practice of attributing words, phrases, or statements to another speaker, and it is used in both scholarly and nonscholarly writing, as well as everyday conversations and situations.
