ABSTRACT
This chapter examines different aspects of academic writing such as the integration of sources, appropriate vocabulary and language functions. One of the most important features of academic writing involves relating the work to previous research and explicitly signalling this through author citations. One may choose to integrate ideas from another author's work into their own by using summaries, quotations and paraphrases. How well they manage to situate their study within the wider discourse on their topic will be one of the criteria used to judge the quality of their work. While drafting their research project, one may have to do certain things with language or perform certain actions linguistically. This chapter will briefly look at how language is used to perform some of these functions. The objective is to prompt people to start noticing how authors employ language for purposes such as these. Consider creating a small database of different phrases that they consider particularly effective.
