Lecture 4- Academic conventions.

• I am going to be looking at ...
• Discovering that...
• In relation to...
• Ways in which we are expected to write 
• Own personal voice- not standardised 
• Importance of academic conventions- rejection of this 
• Institutional framework 
• Way of writing, tone, style, referencing 
• Referencing shows where argument and ideas are coming from 
• Evaluation and creating 
• Surface approach- grade hunting 
• Deep approach- independent and interested
  patterns in ideas 
• Broad range of thinking 
• Reflection and evaluation 
• Evidence deep learning- shown in structure 
• Use of jargon of subject easily and in context 
• Own opinions based and shown around evidence 
• Analyse references don;t just put in 
• Quickly show to reader- evidence, triangulation, ideas common to deep learning 
• Be precise 
• Make point, back up with evidence, critique, reflect 
• Be straight to point- confident
• Avoid using the same words 
• Rounded understanding of concepts
• Don't use conversational tone
• Avoid vague terms 
• Be technical 
• Support what you say to make points sound more important 
• Don't be worried about writing in first person but try to avoid it 
• Tense can be changed to third person- expectation 
• Explain chapters in intro in some detail- theorists going to be used- finish intro with conclusive sentence 
• Long quote- analysed in next sentence/section 
• Paraphrase 
• Smaller quotes woven in 
• Harvard referencing - estudio help 
• 'quote' (surname, year: page) lower-case 
• Writer inside book (writer in writer) 
• Bibliography should be alphabetised and in relevant sections 
• Pictures need to use same referencing