I have to admit that I neglected my academic paper lately due to some
time-dependent problems... Now though, I am going to put some extra effort into
this task. I have structured my academic paper “Towards developing minimum
standards for intercultural cities” into four parts: introduction, comparison of
three member cities, comparison with
non-intercultural cities and a conclusion.
Having finished with the structure, I wondered if we had to include
subheadings in our paper. It would definitely help to create a clear outline of
the text, but the paper is not going to be that long so I don’t know if it’s necessary.
Another question that came up concerns the citation format: Is it enough to
list all sources at the end of the paper?
A website that I find
really helpful in terms of academic language is the “Academic Phrasebank” (http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/introductions.htm).
It is divided into several sections, e.g. introduction, conclusion, describing
methods or findings, and each topic contains example phrases. Another good idea
is searching for parallel texts
to use as a sort of writing aid– as we had to do in Textkompetenz. However, your
parallel texts should be written by native speakers and taken from reliable
sources. Although we are allowed to copy short phrases, be careful not to plagiarise!
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