Mechanics of Writing

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This blog task is in response to the task assigned by Megha Ma'am as part of thinking activity. 

What is Michanics of Writing ?

In composition, writing mechanics are the conventions governing the technical aspects of writing, including spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviations. Getting your main points together can be a challenge, and one solution is to put together a draft of main ideas before writing

Video 1

The video is about Academic Writing by Kalyan Chattopadhyay. The writing is of two types 1) Academic Writing, 2) Non - Academic Writing. 

What is academic writing ?

Academic writing is a formal style of writing used in universities and scholarly publications. You'll encounter it in journal articles and books on academic topics, and you'll be expected to write your essays, research papers, and dissertation in academic style.

What is non - academic writing ?

Non-Academic articles are written for the mass public. They are published quickly and can be written by anyone. Their language is informal, casual and may contain slang. The author may not be provided and will not have any credentials listed. There will be no reference list.

And also known as formal vocab and informal vocab.

Video 2

In this video Prof. Atanu Bhattacharya explained Academic writing very well.

1.What not to do.

2. What can be done.

3. Web tools.

4).Case study.

Another Prof. Atanu Bhattacharya discussed that there are several kinds of scales that will also be helpful to understand academic writing.

A fake take away :

This academic writing has material effects. Some kinds of data, charts and rates material for academic writing.

Avoid a Jargon :

Also in this video we discussed Research and publication ethics, and carefully chose the topic.

Some tips for academic writing are given in the video. Tips like,

1. Introduction last : because at the end you are aware of what your research is and how it ends, so you can write a better introduction at last.

2. Create an Index literature review : Indexes are not needed to do in MLA or Chicago style but it is simply the names of books which helps to understand what there is in the books exactly.

3. Be sure of the triangulated methods : it means while doing research work one has to analyse work with various perspectives and various points of views for example historical views, from the point of view of biography or fiction etc.

So the three more suggestion given that are,

1) Do not repeat the same arguments.

2) Use available digital tools

3) Follow the literature

Also helpful digital tools are also suggested in the video. Like websites to publish our journals. like,

1) Zotero

2) Grammarly - it helps to improve writing and to refine writing.

3) Mendeley

4) Microsoft Word

5)OWL (Online Writing Lab)

6) Reverso

7) Excelsior Online writing lab

Avoid plagiarism :

 There are several types given in video of plagiarism are,

1. Verbatim of rephrasing without acknowledgement.

2. Inappropriate collaboration.

3. Other assistance without acknowledgement.

4. Cheating (copying others’ work).

5. Duplication (submitting the same work for different courses/ programs/ degrees).

6. Research fabrication and falsification.

7. Using computer networks for false attribution

Sum up :

Linguistic choices - the "pitching" of the paper/dissertation/thesi

Discourse choices - how do we organise it, lines of argument etc.

 Topic choices - availability/non-availability of material; synchronic/diachronic.

Ethical choices - plagiarism etc.

Video 3

1.Formulating Propositions/ Defining

2. Genre - Classification - CARS - Creating A Reservation State 

3. Organising Idea

4. Paraphrasing

5. How to write Research Paper Or Thesis

•   Introduction
•  The Thesis Statement of Topic Sentence
•   Contextualise Material
•   Literature Review
•   Basic Defination

6.Noun Phrase and Nominalisations

Thank you...