Step 2: Academic vocabulary

With step 1, the self-editing process, completed, it is now time to continue with step 2. This step involves the enhancement of the paragraps in academic aspect. In academic circles the use of academic language is universally accepted as the writing style for reports, journals and books. Therefore, this step is especially usefull to me, as a non-native speaker and as a scholar participating in an English study at the University of Groningen.

During the following steps I will use some convenient tools the internet provides in order to raise the academic value of the paragraphs. After each step I will, just as during step 1, reflect on the steps taken.

The steps are:

  2.1 Read the introductory

  2.2 Create a vocabulary profile

  2.3 The JustTheWord Collocation Finder

  2.4 Check contextual meanings with concordances

  2.5 Make a gapfill exercise