Interactive Academic Writing Enhancement Workshop with Lizzie Pinard
Explore the world of academic writing with bite-size TD talks in an engaging workshop led by Lizzie Pinard. Discover how wordandphrase.info/academic can improve your writing skills. Dive into exercises to analyze words, collocates, synonyms, and more to enhance your academic vocabulary effectively.
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BITE BITE- -SIZE TD: SIZE TD: USING USING WORDANDPHRASE.INF WORDANDPHRASE.INF O/ACADEMIC O/ACADEMIC (WITH STUDENTS) (WITH STUDENTS) Lizzie Pinard
2 Bite-size TD Talk Aims Explore www.wordandphrase.info/academic and how it works Investigate how it can be used to improve academic writing Model an approach to use with students
3 Exercise A - What What is www.wordandphrase.info/academic? What does it do?
Exercise B - How 4 Go to www.wordandphrase.info/academic Click on Analyse academic texts Type demonstrate into the search box Click search What do you learn about the word demonstrate ? That it is in the top 500 most frequent words in academic writing
Exercise B 5 Click on demonstrate (in yellow, on the right) What information do you see? Definitions, collocates, synonyms, frequency information, examples What does all the coloured highlighting in the examples mean? Different word types pink=verbs; grey=articles/determiners ;blue=nouns; yellow=prepositions; orange=adverbs
Exercise B 6 What is useful about the collocates? You can click on them and see how they are used with your target word What two things are useful about the synonyms information? Divided up by meaning; Clickable so you can see how they are used - structure may differ e.g. subject + demonstrate that + verb phrase but subject + validate + noun phrase
Exercise C 7 Type research into the search box Click on research (in yellow, on the right). What do you have to choose between?) Exact , Noun , Verb , Phrase - select noun Look at the examples. Click the sort for the left-hand side column. What happens to the words? How is this helpful? They are organised alphabetically; any identical words are grouped Can you see any examples with the article a ? If yes, what do you notice about the word after research ? What do you learn from this? another noun = compound noun; no verbs. Research IS NOT COUNTABLE!
Exercise D 8 Type concentrate into the search box Click on it (in red, on the right) Select verb Click on sort at the top of the right-hand column. Which two prepositions are most commonly used after concentrate? What do you notice about the structure of each? to be concentrated in (+ location) to concentrate on
Exercise E 9 Type impact into the search box Click on it (in red, on the right) Select noun Click on sort at the top of the right-hand column. Which two prepositions are most commonly used after impact ? What do you notice about the structure of each? (the) impact of something on something else (have an) impact on something
Exercise E 10 Click on sort at the top of the left-hand column. Look at the adjectives (green) used with impact. Which are evaluative? e.g. powerful, problematic, profound, positive, negative, major, significant (NOT e.g. environmental, humanitarian, social)
11 Exercise F Type role into the search box Click on it (in yellow, on the right) Select noun You want to use the structure play a role with a verb phrase and don t know what preposition and verb form to use after it. Use the examples to find out. *Remember, verbs are pink and prepositions are yellow. play a role + in + verb-ing
Exercise G 12 Click on sort at the top of left-hand column. Look at the adjectives (green) used with role. Which are evaluative? e.g. essential, crucial, central, courageous, indispensable, pivotal NOT e.g. peacekeeping, public
Summary 13 You can use www.wordandphrase.info to: look at definitions of your target word find (clickable) common collocates for your target word and see them used with your target word see examples of your target word or phrase in use, with surrounding punctuation and words colour-coded by word-class focus on the words that follow your target word or phrase (e.g. prepositions) focus on the words that precede your target word or phrase (e.g. evaluative adjectives, find synonyms (according to definition) of your target word click on synonyms of your target word to investigate all the above features in relation to that synonym.
