colloquial

Examples of colloquial in the following topics:

• Mixing Academic and Colloquial Styles

  • Colloquial Style: extract from the magazine article, "How Emotions Can Leave Us Speechless"
  • What, exactly, is the difference between academic writing and colloquial writing?
  • Academic writers should avoid colloquial diction, but colloquial writing can still offer valuable insights about structure and style.
  • The following section will discuss the differences between academic and colloquial conventions, with the ultimate goal of using models from colloquial writing to improve academic style .
  • The structural conventions for academic and colloquial writing are actually similar.

• Appropriate Language

  • While contractions and colloquial words and phrases often make writing sound informal, the use of shorter words does not necessarily indicate an informal style.
  • The reason we want to avoid using clichés in academic writing is that they tend to be ambiguous and can come off as overly colloquial and informal.

• The Importance of Reliability

  • Nor would the Wikipedia entry for "euthanasia" be an appropriate place to look for information, since, while it can be useful for collecting colloquial information, Wikipedia is certainly not a scholarly source.

• Using the First Person in Academic Writing

  • So, addressing the broader question will allow me to move to the particularized question with at least some stable footing. " This version, while only slightly different from the original, sounds more colloquial and less scholarly.

• Quotation Marks

  • In these cases, the quotation marks can call attention to slang, special terminology, a neologism, or they can indicate words or phrases that are unusual, colloquial, folksy, startling, humorous, metaphoric, or that contain a pun.