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    The document discusses four important features of professional and academic language: formality, objectivity, explicitness, and caution. It focuses on formality, explaining that formal language reflects one's dignified stance as a member of the academic community. It provides ways to achieve formality, such as using expanded modal forms instead of contractions, one-verb forms instead of two-word verbs, expanded terms instead of abbreviations, and avoiding colloquial, trite, or idiomatic expressions.

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    The document discusses four important features of professional and academic language: formality, objectivity, explicitness, and caution. It focuses on formality, explaining that formal language reflects one's dignified stance as a member of the academic community. It provides ways to achieve formality, such as using expanded modal forms instead of contractions, one-verb forms instead of two-word verbs, expanded terms instead of abbreviations, and avoiding colloquial, trite, or idiomatic expressions.

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    The document discusses four important features of professional and academic language: formality, objectivity, explicitness, and caution. It focuses on formality, explaining that formal language reflects one's dignified stance as a member of the academic community. It provides ways to achieve formality, such as using expanded modal forms instead of contractions, one-verb forms instead of two-word verbs, expanded terms instead of abbreviations, and avoiding colloquial, trite, or idiomatic expressions.

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    Aspects of Professional and Academic Language

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    Merzi Badoy
    The document discusses four important features of professional and academic language: formality, objectivity, explicitness, and caution. It focuses on formality, explaining that formal language reflects one's dignified stance as a member of the academic community. It provides ways to achieve formality, such as using expanded modal forms instead of contractions, one-verb forms instead of two-word verbs, expanded terms instead of abbreviations, and avoiding colloquial, trite, or idiomatic expressions.

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    ASPECTS OF

    PROFESSIONAL AND
    ACADEMIC LANGUAGE
    FOUR IMPORTANT FEATURES OF
    LANGUAGE

     Formality
     Objectivity
     Explicitness
     Caution
    FORMALITY

     reflects your dignified stance in your writing as a


    member of the academic community
     since your audience are fellow members of the
    academic community, the language you use requires
    precision to make it
    WAYS TO ACHIEVE FORMALITY

    Choosing expanded modal forms over contracted forms

    cannot can’t

    do not don’t

    is not isn’t
    WAYS TO ACHIEVE FORMALITY

    Choosing expanded modal forms over contracted forms


    WAYS TO ACHIEVE FORMALITY

    Choosing one-verb form over two-word verbs

    damage mess up

    search look up

    carry out execute


    WAYS TO ACHIEVE FORMALITY

    Choosing one-verb form over two-word verbs


    WAYS TO ACHIEVE FORMALITY

    Choosing expanded terms over their abbreviated


    equivalents
    as soon as
    ASAP
    possible
    tablespoon tbsp
    chief executive
    CEO
    officer
    WAYS TO ACHIEVE FORMALITY

    Choosing expanded terms over their abbreviated


    equivalents
    WAYS TO ACHIEVE FORMALITY

    Avoiding colloquial/trite/idiomatic expressions


     Colloquial – words and phrases that are part of our
    everyday speech, but that are not part of our formal
    language
     Trite – words that are overused, worn out, lacking in
    originality
     Idiomatic expression – a type of informal language that
    have a meaning different from the meaning of the words in
    the expression
    WAYS TO ACHIEVE FORMALITY

    Avoiding colloquial/trite/idiomatic expressions


    IDIOMATIC
    COLLOQUIAL TRITE EXPRESSIONS

    crib butterflies in stomach once in a blue moon

    y‘all better late than never a piece of cake

    wanna without further ado break a leg

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