Academic English as seen by @joshuarothman #appliedlinguistics #writing

Humanities School, Universidad de Murcia “Academic writing and research may be knotty and strange, remote and insular, technical and specialized, forbidding and clannish—but that’s because academia has become that way, too. Today’s academic work, excellent though it may be, is the product of a shrinking system. It’s a tightly-packed, super-competitive jungle in there”. Read the … Read more

Academic discourse: EIDUM 2014-2015

Academic discourse – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires Source: www.phdcomics.comReferences Biber, D.,  Conrad, S. 2009. Register, genre and style. Cambridge: CUP. Biber, D. Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, Edward Finegan . 1999. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman. Carter-Thomas, S.,   Rowley-Jolivet, E. 2003. Analysing the scientific conference presentation … Read more