Acid rain is a bad thing for all of us.
These examples contain several words and phrases which would not be considered good academic
style, for example like (to give examples),
thing,
and
bad.
These three words are also in the GSL.
In this case, the important consideration is tone: words and phrases such as
aim, report, reasons,
for example, and in comparison are all academic in tone, while
like, thing
, and
bad
are not. For
this reason, when studying words for academic use, it is important to know whether they are
academic (formal) or not.
General vocabulary can also include general words which have special meaning in academic
contexts. Examples include:
discipline
general meaning: training people to obey rules
academic meaning: a subject of study
populatio
n
general meaning: the number of people living in a country/region
academic meaning: all individuals who could possibly be included in a study/survey
contro
l
general meaning: power over sb/sth
academic meaning: a group used in a scientific experiment to check results
In this case, it is important to focus on both the meaning and usage of these general vocabulary
items.
Academic vocabulary is difficult to define, because it depends very much on what kind of
context we are talking about. For example, spoken academic language differs from written
academic language (though they also have much in common); the language for biology differs
from the language for economics, especially in the technical language they use (though again, they
have much in common). The main issue for EAP students is to raise your awareness, of which
general words are formal enough to use in academic writing, build your knowledge of common
academic words, and study and learn the technical vocabulary which is used in the discipline you
are studying (or plan to study).
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