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Academic Writing & Public Health Writing

Academic Writing & Public Health Writing. Workshop. Academic Writing. Audience considerations. Expectations Prior knowledge Technical vocabulary, terminology. Exercise : Describe the MCH pyramid for your friend in the graduate school of business

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Academic Writing & Public Health Writing

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  1. Academic Writing &Public Health Writing Workshop

  2. Academic Writing

  3. Audience considerations • Expectations • Prior knowledge • Technical vocabulary, terminology Exercise: Describe the MCH pyramid for your friend in the graduate school of business Describe the MCH pyramid for a fellow student not concentrating in MCH, but in the MPH program

  4. Purpose & Strategy • Are you instructing? • Are you displaying what you know? • Are you trying to convince someone? Exercise: Write a short sentence for me (your professor) explaining one key finding in the prenatal care literature.

  5. Organization • Problem …Solution • Comparison: Contrast • Cause effect • Classification • Three principles of effective organization: • unity (deals with one idea) • coherence (moves smoothly and logically) • emphasis (important points and words are strategically placed) Exercise: Map out your upcoming writing assignment for this class. Explain your scheme to your neighbor.

  6. Style • Casual v. formal • Phrasal or prepositional verbs v. single verb • Avoid contractions • Avoid “you” (sometimes!) • Avoid run-ons • Be efficient with your language!

  7. Flow • Movement from one statement to the next • Connector words • Semicolons • Use of “it” and “this”

  8. Presentation • To/too/two (homophones) • Pubic Health School • Its it’s it is • Line spacing • Font size

  9. Active v. Passive Voice Active (direct) voice: The normal pattern of English sentences is subject—verb—object, which we call active voice. Passive (indirect) voice reverses the order (object—verb—subject). Passive voice is constructed by using a form of the verb be followed by a past participle (-ed). The phrase “by [the subject]” is included or implied. Use passive voice: 1. to de-emphasize the subject in favor of what has been done: 2. to discuss background that exists as part of the body of knowledge of the discipline, independent of the current author: As a general principle, use active voice in preference to passive.

  10. Final Notes Always save your electronic files with your last name, class name, &/or assignment title. Don’t let your writing eat your good ideas. Edit. Edit some more. Edit again. Read out loud. Exercise: what’s your plan to improve your writing in public health school?

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