NUGSE Academic English Resources: Planning (organizing, understanding genres)

Conceptual and theoretical frameworks serve as the intellectual structures that strengthen your paper’s connection to the established theories that ultimately guide your research. They preside over the kind of data you need to secure and how you ultimately interpret that data. This video discussion provides an overview, with examples, of how to choose your theoretical framework and apply it effectively to your research efforts.

One paragraph builds upon another to ultimately tell a story. This writing truism is common across all genres of writing, including academic writing. This presentation uses basic concepts of paragraph content and organization to examine the construction of your literature review.

Skilled academic writing requires the author to master six essential considerations: audience, purpose, organization, style, flow and presentation. This discussion provides an overview of these elements, and then turns to the critical response, an advanced genre of academic, graduate-level writing that interweaves your own voice with the ideas, concepts and articles that guide your research and writing.