{"id":351,"date":"2014-07-01T12:11:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T12:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english-services-berlin.de\/wordpress\/?page_id=351"},"modified":"2018-07-04T10:45:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T10:45:12","slug":"english-academic-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.english-services-berlin.de\/en\/my-services\/english-academic-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"English Academic Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-295 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 25px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Clear-writing-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"Clear-writing\" width=\"240\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.english-services-berlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Clear-writing-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.english-services-berlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Clear-writing.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><span class=\"dropcap\"><div class=\"sc_dropcaps sc_dropcaps_style_5\"><span class=\"sc_dropcap\">W<\/span><\/div>riting and publishing are basic to academic life today, and many researchers now prefer to publish in English in order to reach a wider audience. Manuscripts submitted for publication need to be written in a clear academic style and be free of errors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I offer academic writing seminars and workshops that teach techniques for writing concise, well-structured English sentences, language for presenting your research, key academic vocabulary, and methods for improving the overall readability of your texts.<\/p>\n<p>Personal coaching is also available.<\/p>\n<h6>Topics:<\/h6>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:0;\">\n<li>Introduction to English academic writing style<\/li>\n<li>Preparing and structuring a text; introductions and conclusions<\/li>\n<li>Organizing English paragraphs<\/li>\n<li>Language and techniques for: defining; presenting and developing arguments; describing procedures and processes; expressing cause and effect; making comparisons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"float:left; width:50%;\">\n<li>Describing visuals<\/li>\n<li>Data commentary: making claims, referring to the work of other researchers, hedging<\/li>\n<li>Avoiding plagiarism: summarizing and paraphrasing<\/li>\n<li>Accuracy in writing: linking language, correct use of verb tenses, appropriate use of the active and passive voices, punctuation<\/li>\n<li>Abstracts and effective titles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Teaching-academic-writing-frei1.jpg\" alt=\"Teaching-academic-writing\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-979 \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>riting and publishing are basic to academic life today, and many researchers now prefer to publish in English in order to reach a wider audience. Manuscripts submitted for publication need to be written in a clear academic style and be free of errors. I offer academic writing seminars and workshops that teach techniques for writing[&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":368,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-351","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-services-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-services-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-services-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-services-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-services-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-services-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-services-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/revisions\/1108"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-services-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-services-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}