Student Learning, Teaching and Learning Centre Murdoch University.
Informal language
- contractions
- hesitation filler
- personal pronouns
- informal vocabulary
- unqualified statements
Formal language
- passives
- formal vocabulary
- hedges (qualification - "it appears")
- nominalisation (turning other parts of speech into nouns - eg male and female -> gender)
- evidence
- argumentation
Register - adjusting of language according to context
Genre - constraints operating at the level of discourse structure eg. report, essay, sermon, article
Ballard & Clanchy - to be successful at university you must learn the culture of the university - when in Rome, do as the Romans.
Bizzell - bicultural means adding to your repertoire; doesn't have to be something that you take away from one when you're adding another.
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