12 Common Errors in Academic English

Academic English?

General English vs. Academic English.

Academic English is more formal, objective and also has to use a lot of referencing.

You always have to let people know where you got your information from. You have to give the source.

1. Contractions

don't -> do not

2. Phrasal Verbs

go up -> increase

take away -> remove

3. Idioms

A1 -> excellent

4. Slang

kids -> children

5. Pronouns

You can see from the graph ~ -> The graph shows ~

6. Negatives

is not effective -> is ineffective

is not positive -> is negative

7. Cliches

When all is said and done -> in conclusion

8. Punctuation

MLA-APA stype guide(?)

difference between '.' and ';'

[some sentence].[other sentence]

[some sentence];[other sentence]

When we use ',' between sentence the second sentence starts with Capital letter.

However, if we use ';', the second sentence start with small letter.

9. Vague language

a bit, a lot, kind of, sort of -> considerable

10. Simple vocab

big difference -> major distinction

11. Personal opinion

I think -> According to

12. Direct language

too strong, can't be justified

References

http://www.engvid.com/12-common-errors-in-academic-english/