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English for Academic Purposes

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Accuracy in Speaking and Writing (1)

Anca GataCOPYRIGHT TO Andy Gillett

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Introduction

When using English for academic purposes itis important to be accurate both in speaking

and writing. It is, however, very difficult toproduce language which is intelligent,appropriate and accurate at the same time. Itis therefore important to break down the taskinto stages: an ideas stage and an accuracystage.


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Speaking

When you are speaking, you therefore need toprepare well. Do not prepare only your ideas;

prepare your language as well. Michael Wallace'sadvice (Wallace, 1980, pp. 209-210) is veryuseful. Write out your spoken presentation in theway that you intend to say it. This means that if

you are working from a piece of your own writtenwork, you must do some of the work of writingthe paper again.


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Speaking

Written language is different from spoken

language. Your seminar presentation will

probably take less time than the written paper

it is based on and you cannot summarise

while you are standing at the front of the

room.


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Speaking

When you have written out your talk, you will

need to carefully check it for accuracy. Another

possibility is to record your presentation and

watch it later. While you are watching it, look out

for mistakes - a useful way to do this is to

transcribe sections of your talk, as it is easier tonotice mistakes when they are written down. You

can then try to give the talk again.


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Writing

When you are writing, you need to rewrite

and edit your work carefully. In Writing and

the writer, Frank Smith distinguishes between

"composition" and "transcription" in writing.

"Composition" is deciding what you want to

say, and "transcription" is what you have to doto say it.


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Writing

His advice is: The rule is simple: Compositionand transcription must be separated, and

transcription must come last. It is asking toomuch of anyone, and especially of studentstrying to improve all aspects of their writingability, to expect that they can concernthemselves with polished transcription at thesame time that they are trying to compose.


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Writing

The effort to concentrate on spelling,

handwriting, and punctuation at the same

time that one is struggling with ideas and their

expression not only interferes with

composition but creates the least favorable

situation in which to develop transcriptionskills as well" (Smith, 1982, p. 24).


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Advice

Check how good you are at finding mistakes.

For seminars, plan your talk in detail andcarefully proof-read it for accuracy. Or, give

your talk, transcribe it and then proof-read it.

In writing, proof-read your work.


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First Exercise

Many people would say there was a "mistake" in

each of the following sentences. Can you identify

them? For each sentence, please do four things:

mark the faulty word or words;

briefly describe what is wrong;

try to write a correct or improved version;

decide how important the mistake is.


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First Exercise

Many people would say there was a "mistake" in

each of the following sentences. Can you identify

them? For each sentence, please do four things:

mark the faulty word or words;

briefly describe what is wrong;

try to write a correct or improved version;

decide how important the mistake is.


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First Exercise

He is a former student who I've not seen foryears.

He is an unskilled labourer and works at odd jobs,but he don't do any of them very well.

However, there were other patients whose liveshad ended by suicide.

I have now discussed the proposals for replacingall the computers with my colleagues.


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First Exercise

It is felt that less people would be put off attendingwith other problems if the stigma of going to a cliniccould be dispensed with.

It is just possible that you are one of those rare peoplewho has never seriously tried to diet.

It may be open to challenge on certain grounds, i.e. ifan emergency occurs.

It was the community in it's purest form. It was thought necessary to determine legally that

someone had attained the age when they wereallowed to marry.


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First Exercise

Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) had supposed that themain cause of evolutionary change was because of the"inheritance of acquired character".

Kinship in these societies had to be completely different towhat it was in capitalist society.

No matter what he says, he has and will always be incharge.

She could give a better response than that to I and to my

friends. The category of killings which has come to be known as

involuntary manslaughter hasn't nothing to do withinvoluntariness.


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First Exercise

The committee has not announced their decisionyet.

The emphasis on revolution as ending every stageis, also, much more definately stated than inearlier works.

The esential feature of these results has beenamply confirmed.

The experiment by Norcross (1958) which used aslightly different version of this procedureproduced essentially the same outcome.


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First Exercise

The first really useful realization of the Lie algebraof the Geroch group, was formulated by

Kinnersley and Chitre (1977, 1978a, b). The more aggressive technologies, those which

need a great deal of energy and natural resourcesand cause extensive environmental pollution,

represent a percentage of industrial production. Jones and Smith argues that the problem began

in December 1942.


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First Exercise

At that time there were hardly any scholarlyaccounts of the period in question, the only really

important biography was that of George V byHarold Nicolson.

The task - one that involved pedalling on astationery bicycle - was equally demanding at all

times. They are, in fact, just the kind of thing the natural

philosopher might be interested in.


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First Exercise

This has meant that elsewhere it has been verydifficult to clearly assess the extent of theproblem.

Though he has generally been considered anti-intellectual and disinterested in art theory, at thisstage of his career he shared the concerns of hisfellows of the Petit Boulevard for principles of

colour. When they were discussing the historical

development which led to capitalism.


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References

Smith, F. (1982). Writing and the writer.London: Heinemann.

Wallace, M. J. (1980). Study skills in English.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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