... abstract and technical than our daily writing. In academic writing, students are required to take on a different voice, tone, mannerism and attitude as well as an additional set of vocabulary. For example, among psychologists "psychologists' definitions are often abstract, highly conceptualized, academic, and technical" (Rucker, 2006). The abstract and technical language used may produce writing that may be ... , but they also have to acquire the cultural 'codes' necessary in order to articulate this understanding in the essays they write for their tutors. Particularly in the Arts and S...

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