Do\'s and Don\'ts in Academic Writing PDF

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Do's and Don’ts of Academic Writing in English Don’t use 1st or 2nd person. • • •

Appropriate when writing about personal experience (1st) Informal; too familiar Giving instructions; making suggestions (2nd)

Don’t use contractions. • •

i.e. I’m, don’t, won’t avoid abbreviation; acronyms

Don’t use words like things, stuff, good, and bad. •

Vague; too general

Don’t use expressions like etc. or so on. • •

non- descriptive use appropriate transitions (In addition; moreover; thus)

Don’t start a sentence with a coordinating conjunction. • •

and, but, or, so, for, yet, nor FANBOYS

Do cite sources both in-text and end of text. • • •

APA (author, year) (References) Any and every outside source that is used needs to be cited. If you use Wikipedia, try your best to locate the original source.

Do include a heading and a title for each of the assignments. • •

Left aligned: name, date, assignment Center aligned: not bolded, 12 pt font, same font style

Do capitalize I when writing it as a personal pronoun. •

Do not use lowercase “i”

Do write out the complete word, avoid abbreviations. •

University at Buffalo (UB); English Language Institute (ELI)

Do indent each new paragraph. • •

Tab key (.5 inches; 1.27 centimeters); double spaced Works Cited- hanging indentation; tab key used on second line of citation...