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Paragraphs, Register & Style

Welcome to today's online lesson : )

In this learning unit, you will

1. watch a video about paragraph, register and style,
2. finish quiz questions to see if you have a good command of them.

Hope you enjoy!
Recorded by Wu Xiao(Adair) & Gao Zhijia(Mingo);
Opening and ending Music by David Yuan
Please reorganize the following sentences into one paragraph
  1. However, we controlled for this in our playbacks, matching the rates of pups and juveniles, yet adults still provisioned food at lower rates to playbacks of juvenile calls than those of pups.
  2. Adult meerkats discriminated between the calls of pups and the calls of juveniles.
  3. Under natural circumstances this could be caused by juveniles calling at much lower rates than pups (J. R. Madden, unpublished data), with adults provisioning at a rate proportional to begging rate (Manser et al. 2008).
  4. We observed that the discrimination by adults is not perfect, and in almost all our playbacks, adults fed at least occasionally to the speaker broadcasting the juvenile calls.
2-3-1-4
Which are the features of FORMAL language in terms of vocabulary?
  1. Latin and French based words; common words
  2. Anglo Saxon words and phrasal verbs, common words
  3. Latin and French based words; uncommon words
  4. Anglo Saxon words and phrasal verbs, uncommon words
3
Decide which column is formal and which is informal:
A: Formal
B: Informal
Which sentences below is more academic?
  1. Regrettably, the inflation in Russia led to increased poverty, illness and so on.
  2. Lots of people think that the railways are getting worse.
  3. Currently the rate of criminal is at an unprecedented level in the country.
3
Please replace the bolded numbers with proper words or phrases you have learned in the video.
  1. Only four people responded to the questionnaire.
  2. She made five or six proposals to improve the team’s performance.
  3. He found over fifty factual errors in the article.
  1. Only few people responded to the questionnaire.
  2. She made various proposals to improve the team’s performance.
  3. He found dozens factual errors in the article.
 
Please rewrite the following sentences to make them more academic:
  1. The second thing is that most kids in that district will become criminals.
  2. A few years ago, they allowed women to vote.
  3. The changes had several bad aspects.
Open-ended question
 
Please rewrite the following sentences in a more cautious way:
  1. Private companies are more efficient than state-owned businesses.
  2. Exploring space is a waste of valuable resources.
  3. Concrete is the best material for building bridges.
Open-ended question
Croker, Duncan. “What Is Language Register in Writing?” Chevron Editing, 6 Jan. 2022, chevronediting.com.au/written-language-register.
Haines, Derek. “Using Register In English Writing And How You Can Control It.” Just Publishing Advice For Writers and Authors, 6 Dec. 2021, justpublishingadvice.com/control-register-in-your-writing.
“Register Types | Academic Writing in English.” Academic Writing in English at Lund University, http://www.awelu.lu.se/language/register-and-style/register-types.
“Structure within Paragraphs | Academic Writing in English.” Academic Writing in English at Lund University, http://www.awelu.lu.se/writing/writing-stage/structuring-the-text/structure-within-paragraphs.%2520Accessed%25201%2520Feb.%25202022.
Nair, Madhu. “Formal vs. Informal: Best Writing Practices.” University of the People, 5 Jan. 2022, http://www.uopeople.edu/blog/formal-vs-informal-writing.
Bailey, Stephen. Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students. 2nd ed., London & New York, Routledge, 2006.
Manninen, Satu. “Academic Writing: IMRaD.” YouTube, uploaded by Akademiskt skrivande/Academic Writing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zud3lIXxdM.
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