PC 1.4 formal style is used. This will include academic conventions The tone, lexical and grammatical features and Writing uses a formal such as: sentence structure are appropriate to the academic style appropriate to context most of the time. the academic context. formal tone e.g. Formal style includes objective language: It is rather than evident… believe… but is not limited to – hedging or imprecise language e.g. The majority of critics lexical and believe than all of the critics believe. … …rather grammatical features, no slang or colloquial expressions and a variety of no contractions or abbreviations e.g. do not instead of sentence structures. instead of e.g. don’t; For example formal lexical features e.g. specialised vocabulary e.g. migrant, agencies correct word choice e.g. meaning and collocation e.g. welfare agencies correct part of speech e.g. migrate, migration formal grammatical features e.g. nominalisation e.g. The contribution of / immigration… Immigration contributes… the use of ellipsis and substitution to avoid repetition e.g. These (suggestions) included the following…(ellipsis). There was one recent instance…(substitution) appropriate tense e.g. It was it has been thought…(active) (passive), (modals) suggested could be spent use of reference e.g. It is evident … These include … There are… a variety of sentence structures e.g. simple sentences e.g. There are additional advantages to migration. compound sentences e.g. An unskilled labour force can lower the real wages of local workers and cause unemployment in the new country. complex sentences e.g. If developed countries stopped taking migrants, the results would be catastrophic.
PC 1.4 Writing uses a formal style appropriate to the academic context. Formal style includes but is not limited to – lexical and grammatical features, and a variety of sentence structures. formal style is used. This will include academic conventions such as: formal tone e.g. objective language: It is evident… rather than believe… hedging or imprecise language e.g. The majority of critics believe … …rather than all of the critics believe. no slang or colloquial expressions no contractions or abbreviations e.g. do not instead of don’t; For example instead of e.g. formal lexical features e.g. specialised vocabulary e.g. migrant, agencies correct word choice e.g. meaning and collocation e.g. welfare agencies correct part of speech e.g. migrate, migration formal grammatical features e.g. nominalisation e.g. The contribution of immigration… / Immigration contributes… the use of ellipsis and substitution to avoid repetition e.g. These (suggestions) included the following…(ellipsis). There was one recent instance…(substitution) appropriate tense e.g. It was thought…(active) it has been suggested (passive), could be spent (modals) use of reference e.g. It is evident … These include … There are… a variety of sentence structures e.g. simple sentences e.g. There are additional advantages to migration. compound sentences e.g. An unskilled labour force can lower the real wages of local workers and cause unemployment in the new country. complex sentences e.g. If developed countries stopped taking migrants, the results would be catastrophic. The tone, lexical and grammatical features and sentence structure are appropriate to the academic context most of the time.
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