4/13 Week 4 Summary: Nominalisation

Advanced Academic Writing: Tips and Ideas

English - October 02, 2021 14:16 - 4 minutes - 4.06 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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(The text version of this podcast can be found here.)
Over the past week, we explore one of the most important paraphrasing strategies: nominalisation. In this short podcast, I recapitulated some reasons why you should use nominalisation in academic writing -- not just in academic essays, but also when you write professionally when you enter into the workplace.
And you may want to read a related blogpost on what makes academic texts complex. Click here to have a look.
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