The rudiments of academic writing

1. Writing in an Academic Context: An Overview of Selected Issues; 1.1. Research, Research Topic and Research Purpose; 1.2. Formal Vocabulary, Grammar and Style; 1.3. Sentence Length and Organisation; 1.4. Conjictions; 1.5. Sentence Adverbials; 1.6. Paragraph Writing; 2. The Techncalities of Writing a Thesis; 2.1. Dividing a Thesis into Parts; 2.2. Abbreviations, Borrowings and Numbers; 2.3. Punctuation; 2.4. Italics and Quotation Marks; 2.5. Documenting One's Sources; 2.6. Creating a Reference List. [JR]