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    Regardless of which language a student might use to conduct their studies, the completion of

    a university-level assignment will require a certain style and register of language that some
    new academics may be unfamiliar with at first. Whether a speaker is native or is learning the
    language for the purposes of academia, students who are completing a bachelor’s or master’s
    degree in English should quickly become familiar with the term English for Academic
    Purposes – or ‘EAP’. Broadly speaking, EAP describes the type of academic language that
    English-speaking students will be required to use if they wish to write in the appropriate
    style.

    This short reader on academic language has therefore been created to introduce students to
    the overall concepts of language appropriacy hoping to explain the many dos and don’ts of
    this style so that new academics can improve the quality of their assignments and in turn
    increase their overall grades. Our first chapter on this topic explores the concepts and features
    of English for Academic Purposes, with Chapter 2 introducing the seven language structures
    that are most appropriate when writing academically. Chapter 3 then concludes this readers
    by outlining the twelve types of linguistic construction that are generally considered to be too
    informal, subjective or imprecise to be included in academic research

    Who uses English for Academic Purposes (EAP)?


    Although some estimates for the number of people studying the English language are as high
    as 1.5 billion, the amount of students, teachers and researchers who are required to use
    English for Academic Purposes is undoubtedly much lower. While non-native students of
    English may have many reasons for studying the language (whether it’s a desire to improve
    their ability to travel, their job prospects, or their understanding of foreign movies and
    music), users of academic English generally all have the same motivation – which is to
    emulate the correct and appropriate form, style and register of English that’s conventionally
    used when submitting, tutoring or publishing successful academic research. This more
    limited motivation of course explains the lower number of learners around the globe
    While general English may be described as being informal and subjective in nature, academic
    English is traditionally more formal and objective – preferring scientific methods of
    persuading the reader, such as by offering reasoning, deduction, evidence and analysis.
    Academic language is therefore intended to be as precise, unambiguous and concise as
    possible, so that important information can be transmitted from the writer or speaker to their
    audience with as little opportunity for misinterpretation as possible.
    English for Academic Purposes, then, is the particular language that’s required for successful
    integration into the academic community, covering areas of grammar, punctuation, syntax,
    vocabulary and appropriate discourse. EAP is, in short, the written or spoken forms that are
    most useful to students when attempting to complete academic assignments, improve
    academic skills, understand academic policies and navigate academic norms

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