Academic writing tools
Writing academic article and research article seems to be difficult for all beginners. This is due to the fact that academic writing requires fundamental knowledge of English e.g. grammar, tense, and arrangement of sections in an article. For example, present tense is mostly used in an abstract, present perfect tense should be used in an introduction and background information, and past tense is used for reporting experiment results.
Examples of sentences in Active voice and Passive voice
Active voice: Reporters write news reports.
Passive voice: News reports are written by reporters.
Academic word list (awl)
Writer must use appropriate academic word, i.e. the world “get” or “receive” are both fine for daily use, but “obtain” would be more appropriate or the word “appear” should be changed to “occur” for more appropriate academic writing style. More information on academic word could be found on websites listed below.
Writer should learn the usage of Noun, Verb, Adjective, and Adverb to be able to use them correctly. For example, the noun “Train” could mean differently when it is used as verb in a sentence. Some websites for checking are listed below.
After writers have learned the usage of words and know how to include them in academic article and research article, the writers should increase writing skills by studying different ways of using these words in sentences. This will help increase the ability of writing and here are some websites that provide examples.
To search sentence examples for websites “https://dictionary.cambridge.org/example/english/train” replace “train” with the word you want to search, such as the word “obtain”, change to “https://dictionary.cambridge.org/example/english/obtain”
In academic writing, repeating the same word too often could bore your readers. Using synonyms is helpful to replace some repeating words and make your article more attractive to read. The link below is where you can find synonym words.
When finish an article, every writers should first proof read their own writing. Here are some links to help correct your writing.
- https://app.grammarly.com
- https://www.correctenglish.com
- https://www.grammarcheck.net
- https://www.gingersoftware.com
- https://www.onlinecorrection.com/
- https://www.scribens.com/
References
Credit. Thanks to umaporn for the English version.
Originally published at https://medium.com on April 30, 2020.
