Obstacles to effective written expression

Genre structure

• Knowing how to write
  • an academic essay
  • a report
  • a literature review
  • a case study
  • a case note

Language skills

• Being able to
  • use appropriate vocabulary, idiom, metaphors
  • use appropriate sentence grammar
  • construct coherent and cohesive paragraphs
  • state and justify a point of view
  • hedge and qualify assertions
  • express hypotheses and counter-factuals
  • describe and analyse quantities and statistics

Use of sources

• Knowing how and when to
  • report a source
  • comment on a source
  • quote from a source
  • paraphrase a source
  • acknowledge a source