Revising expressions that deviate from essay style and tone
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I can revise expressions to ensure they align with an essay's academic style and tone.
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Key concepts
3 concepts
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Academic essays require a formal, objective, and precise style, with a tone that is serious and respectful.
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To maintain an academic style, students should avoid slang, contractions, and conversational phrases, replacing them with more formal and precise vocabulary.
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Essays should generally maintain an objective distance, presenting evidence and logical reasoning rather than overly emotional or subjective language.
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Practice
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Identify the informal expression in the following sentence and suggest a more academic alternative: 'The scientist's experiment was super cool and showed a lot of stuff about cell division.'
Revise the following sentence to remove overly emotional or subjective language, making it more appropriate for an academic essay: 'I strongly believe that the government's decision to cut funding for arts programs is a terrible mistake that will ruin creativity.'
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“Revise the following sentence to align with an academic essay's formal style and objective tone, based on the principles discussed in the reading passage: "Honestly, I don't think the new policy is gonna help much, it's just a bunch of stuff that won't really fix anything."”
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