{"id":147,"date":"2018-09-14T14:04:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T18:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/technicalwriting2ed\/part\/appendixa-writingbasics\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:46:07","slug":"appendixa-writingbasics","status":"publish","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/technicalwriting2ed\/part\/appendixa-writingbasics\/","title":{"raw":"APPENDICES: Academic Writing Basics","rendered":"APPENDICES: Academic Writing Basics"},"content":{"raw":"Technical Writing Essentials<\/em> is designed to follow up on the skills learned in a first year Academic Writing course. If you'd like a refresher on some of the skills and ideas you learned in first year, an excellent open textbook used in some first year writing courses is Why Write? A Guide for Students in Canada (2nd Ed)<\/em><\/a>. In particular, Chapter 5 of this textbook discusses grammar as a situated practice<\/a>, offers an excellent overview of \"What is grammar<\/a>?\" and provides some very helpful information on \"Rules for Academic Writing in English<\/a>.\"\r\n\r\nThe following sections provide a review of some of the basic conventions and expectations of academic writing that students should be familiar with and that are relevant to technical writing:\r\n\r\nAppendix A:\u00a0 Referring to Authors and Titles<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\nAppendix B:\u00a0 Writing A Summary<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\nAppendix C: Writing Comparisons<\/b><\/a>\r\n\r\nAppendix D:\u00a0 <\/a><\/strong>Transitional Words and Phrases for University Writing<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\nAppendix E:\u00a0 Sentence Structure<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\nAppendix F:\u00a0 Punctuation Matters<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n ","rendered":"

Technical Writing Essentials<\/em> is designed to follow up on the skills learned in a first year Academic Writing course. If you’d like a refresher on some of the skills and ideas you learned in first year, an excellent open textbook used in some first year writing courses is Why Write? A Guide for Students in Canada (2nd Ed)<\/em><\/a>. In particular, Chapter 5 of this textbook discusses grammar as a situated practice<\/a>, offers an excellent overview of “What is grammar<\/a>?” and provides some very helpful information on “Rules for Academic Writing in English<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The following sections provide a review of some of the basic conventions and expectations of academic writing that students should be familiar with and that are relevant to technical writing:<\/p>\n

Appendix A:\u00a0 Referring to Authors and Titles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Appendix B:\u00a0 Writing A Summary<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Appendix C: Writing Comparisons<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Appendix D:\u00a0 <\/a><\/strong>Transitional Words and Phrases for University Writing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Appendix E:\u00a0 Sentence Structure<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Appendix F:\u00a0 Punctuation Matters<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"pb_part_invisible":false,"pb_part_invisible_string":""},"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-147","part","type-part","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/technicalwriting2ed\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/technicalwriting2ed\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/technicalwriting2ed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/part"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/technicalwriting2ed\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/technicalwriting2ed\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/147\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/technicalwriting2ed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/technicalwriting2ed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/technicalwriting2ed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}