Improve Your Academic Writing | 7 Useful Tips to Become a Better Writer ✍️

Do not underestimate the power and importance of writing. And you should not always write as though you're sending a text message.

Therefore, I want to talk to you about some useful tips that will help you greatly improve your academic writing. This is helpful for both university as well as more professional environments like a business setting.

Following these suggestions will allow you to transform your academic writing so that it's easier to read and understand.

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0:00 Intro to Academic Writing
0:46 Tip #1 - Be concise
3:10 Tip #2 - Organize your paper
4:41 Tip #3 - Avoid contractions, idioms, & colloquial expressions
6:22 Tip #4 - Vary your sentence structure
8:47 Tip #5 - Use the active voice
9:54 Tip #6 - Avoid repetition
11:44 Tip #7 - Proofread your writing

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[ashishsinghvlogs]

1. Be concise
2. Use action verbs
3.easier to understand your writing
4. Help structure your writing
5. Avoid contraction

[vinothkumar]

Tip 1: Be concise
Tip 2: Organize your paper
Tip 3: Avoid contractions, colloquial & idioms
Tip 4: Vary your sentence structure (Simple, compound, complex and Compound+complex)
Tip 5: Use active voice
Tip 6: Avoid repetition
Tip 7: Proof reading

[coolbeanzbeef]

Pro tip: During the "concise" section add the clip of Kevin from The Office saying "why say lot word when few word do trick?" 😂

[kiyoaki]

This is generally decent advice, I agree with the points about active voice and being concise, but I think the "no repetition" rule comes with some caveats. When students are told to not repeat themselves they tend to reach for a thesaurus to find some obscure synonym of what they are really trying to say. I think there is one rule of academic writing that you do not mention, and that is to pay close attention to verbs. Students like to use verbs like "indicates", "reflects", "notes" to vaguely gesture at an idea without having to precisely state it, or just because they think "indicates" is somehow more academic than "says". I also don't think there is anything inherently wrong with occasionally using "also" to relieve some of the weightiness of a word like "furthermore".

More generally, students should be encouraged above all else to be conscious of, and empathic to, the reader. Convey ideas efficiently, don't dress them up, find the most precise language to express what you want to say (and "precise" does not always mean "simple", a difficult concept may require novel uses of language to be expressed fully). Pretend your reader is there with you as you write, and you are trying to convince them of the validity of what you say as best as you can.

[reirin]

I am getting low grades from my exams. But, I study well. I thought the reason may be about how I am writing the answers. They are probably too messy and each sentence contains too much information. Thank you! I will try these tactics in my upcoming exams.

[essaycrew]

Who is here because they have an essay to write?

[petersawa]

I come to understand that, i should avoid colloquial word, observe sentence structure, be consise, use action words just to mention few.This is amazing lesson

[nazmulshohan]

Here is I got all things in under one roof!

1. Be concise
2. Use action verbs
3. Before writing, create an outline
4. Avoid contractions, idioms and colloquial expressions
5. Try to avoid phrasal verbs
6. Very your sentence structure
7. Use active voice more
8. Avoid repetition in words
9. Use different transition words
10. Proofread forward and backward

happy

[MariHN-encanada]

I am preparing for my EILTS Test and am starting to feel confused about all this academic writing. I never imagined how difficult this can be. Thanks for the video. really great.

[elenaorozco]

That is what I need. Now I should start practicing my writing. Thank you for the lesson! 👍👍👍

[abaabaagebreyes]

Still after one year, what you have taught makes a sense to me.Realy, you have summarized for me in few minutes that i learned whole semester in my second semester course in university.I hope your still making these concise clips for life time student like me.keep it up!

[ian_inaba.]

Great lesson ❤ I found this really helpful. Thank you so much, Wes!🙏

[jamestabang]

Thank you so much for these vital tips. I really want to improve my formal writing, especially focusing on sentence flow. My problem is I have to mention laws signed by a person, and I often am stuck in repeatedly starting separate sentences with "On May 1, 2010, Donald signed a law creating a task force ...". Do you have any tips on how to improve the linking of these sentences into a single coherent paragraph and avoid repeated use of the sentence structure "On <date>, <subject> signed a law ..."?

[giulianamit]

Today I was working when a YouTube message arrived on my computer. It was a new video from InteractiveEnglish and I was curious about its content.
I was impatient to finish my work to listen to my teacher and take new paths of thought.
My expectations have been met and now I am writing, trying to follow the useful advice you gave us.
Thank you

[tenzy]

You are one of the best and kindest English teachers I have ever seen in my life! Thank you!

[humbertogarcia]

It took me a few years and lots of practice to learn what you explained in a few minutes! Excellent job!!!

[alejandragibbs]

Thank you for the great content on your videos, It really helps me a lot . I have been studying English for almost two years but right now I am practicing my writing skill since I will take the GED exam. I wish all of you good luck with your English !

[rajan]

Step by step exposure has really noticeable note at larger aspect .
Every big things are essential relied on this video in the swathe of construction of sentence.
Superbly insights things

[orthoguy]

Definitely what i need. I've been looking for academic writing type of videos, to help develop skills, and help me with my writing

[mayanlogos]

3:06 - idk about English but sometimes when it comes to my native and I have to write an essay I have to use some specific words that I don't like to use or didn't knew (and had to search for their explanation in dex in order to be able to use them somehow correctly) cs of academic standards etc.. so ith sometimes is unavoidable such things as using a more complicated term rather than a word with the same meaning (or a few) that you actually new