Assignment 1.

1. The style of academic writing has to do with what language, grammar and vocabulary is different text types, knowing which style that is appropriate to which text type. There are different characteristics to the style of academic writing, it is for example important that the text written is formal and it requires use of Standard English. This means that there will not be any abbreviations or contractions in the text, neither will there be slang nor dialects. The writer of an academic text must also be objective and explicit.

2.

Informal

it was actually pretty fun. Thurs night went to a karaoke haha, fri went to a party and sat when to a bar. i was def alot of fun. I wanna come to sweden ahahah

Formal

The inability to move low-cost electricity to consumers because of congestion on transmission lines brings with it costs similar to those associated with traffic congestion. The lack of transmission capacity in the eastern United States is estimated to cost consumers $16 billion a year in this region alone.

These two texts are examples of an informal and a formal text. The first extraxt is informal and this could be recognized as it includes a lot of abbreviations and contractions, the grammar is incorrect, the text has not been edited before it was published. The second extract is part of a formal text. There is no slang, abbreviations, or contractions in this text and it focuses on the issue of it, not on the writer. It is also written in Standard English.

3.

Formal

The television of today is no longer what it used to be. A TV-show that used to be an hour long is no longer an hour, even if the programme listings say that they should be. This is due to the increasing time in commercials. The commercial breaks have increased with approximately three minutes over the last decade.

Informal

Today’s TV is crap if I was to compare it with the past. There’s too much commercials on it, no time left for my favorite shows! There’s no use looking at TV anymore, when the commercial is over I’ve already forgotten what I watched in the first place. Annoying. In two years the TV-shows will be 10 minutes with 50 minutes commercial in between. I hate commercials.