Episode Synopsis "4/13 Week 4 Summary: Nominalisation"

(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. Before you go, let me know in the Q&A below what you want me to explain in the next podcast!

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More episodes of the podcast Advanced Academic Writing: Tips and Ideas

• 5-6/13 Week 5 & 6 Summary: Grammar to Make Sense and Choice
• 4/13 Week 4 Summary: Nominalisation
• 3/13 Week 3 Summary: Shell Nouns, Superordinate Nouns, and Reflections on Your First Writing
• 2/13 Week 2 Summary: Reviewing Structure of Summary Texts, Paragraphs & Paragraph Openers
• Grammar Point: Tense Choice in Writing
• 1/13 - Week 1 Summary: Reflective Thoughts
• What makes academic writing "academic"?
• Welcoming fellow LCS4453 students
• Introducing "corpus": a tool for finding language patterns