Answer to Question #310911 in English for Lira

Question

Quote and discuss the effects of three specific features of academic writing from the article.(refer to page 71 (unit6)of your prescribed book for this question

Answer 1

Complexity- Written language is relatively more complex because it consist of longer words, lexically more dense, and has more varied vocabulary. "It uses more noun-based phrases than verb-based phrases."

Precision- Facts and figures are given precisely in academic writing to give relevance to the topic of discussion.

Formality- "academic writing has a general objective rather than personal making it have fewer words that refer to the writer or the reader." This means that the main emphasis should be on the information that you want to portray and the arguments you want to make, rather than you.