A good writer is able to use a range of sentence types with a high level of accuracy. Whether its for an essay, a report, an exam paper or a blog, your sentences should be varied and should cause no difficulty for your reader. In Crafting Successful Sentences, we focus on what makes a good sentence and how to expand the range of the sentences you use.
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In order to write academic texts effectively, you will need to be able to recognise and produce a range of sentence types. This workshop is an introduction to the ways in which you can construct accurate and varied sentences in order to write clearly and fluently and to avoid common problems in sentence structure. You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively on editing and improving your own written work accordingly.
In this session, you will:
Academic text is characterised by complex sentences which are often made up of a number of clauses. This is what allows a good writer to show connections between ideas or pieces of information and to write more sophisticated sentences and is exactly what your tutors expect to see in your written work. This workshop will give you plenty of opportunity to explore the grammatical framework of complex sentences in order to become a better writer. Do not worry about grammatical terms such as ‘clause’- everything will be explained!
In this session, you will:
practise using adverb clauses.
practise using adjective clauses.
practise using noun clauses.
Good academic text is characterised by the greater use of noun phrases over verb phrases, which in grammar is known as nominalisation. Being able to use noun phrases to good effect automatically makes your writing less subjective, more formal and therefore more academic. This workshop will give you the opportunity to practise constructing complex noun phrases and to work collaboratively on editing and improving your own written work accordingly.
In this session, you will:
recognise noun phrases in the work of others.
practise transforming verb phrases into noun phrases.
look at how you can edit your own work to include greater nominalisation.
This workshop focuses on the verb in academic writing. It will explore the relationship between time and tense commonly used in academic texts as well as the importance of using both active and passive voices appropriately. You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively on editing and improving your own written work accordingly.
In this session, you will:
learn where your strength and weaknesses are in the use of verb tense and voice.
practise using past, present and future tenses appropriately.
recognise when to use the passive and active voice appropriately.