Welcome to College Reading and Writing! This course will help you increase your knowledge of vocabulary words and formal language that are require in academic language settings. This language is called academic language, and it is the kind of language that is used in school and in the classroom. Academic language uses words that are more formal and more complex. A basic knowledge of some of these words may help you to understand your assignments, communicate with your professors and other students, and use academic language in your writing assignments.

In our writing workshop, we will study how to revise sentences that contain informal language to make them more appropriate for essays and other writing by substituting common words for more academic words.

The words are divided into categories:

Descriptive words, such as crucial, concise, and figurative

Words used to evaluate ideas and concepts, such as subjective, objective, and conjecture

Words used to share and discuss ideas, such as insinuate, articulate, and summarize

Words used in showing and discussing relationships between ideas and concepts, such as differentiate, complement, and distinguish

General academic words in reading and writing, such as hypothesis, stance, and scope

Words related to writing and the writing process, such as integrate, formulate, and synthesize

Transition Words, such as subsequently and henceforth.