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Academic Writing General Guidelines, Slides of Technical Writing

Ahmadu Bello UniversityTechnical Writing

In this course, students learn the fundamentals of academic writing and intellectual abilities. By gaining both theoretical and practical knowledge and skills, students will be able to develop texts for interdisciplinary academic discourses in this course. Critical reading and writing skills will be honed via the process of synthesizing, analyzing, evaluating, and summarizing information.

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2021/2022

Available from 08/05/2022

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Academic Writing General Guidelines
Formatting. Proofreading. Academic writing.
Referencing.
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Academic Writing General Guidelines

Formatting. Proofreading. Academic writing.

Referencing.

  1. Dissertation Abstract:
  • (^) 750 words
  • (^) Double spaced
  • (^) Times New Roman
  • (^) Size 12
  • (^) Justified margins
    1. Table of Content
    • (^) Double spaced
    • (^) Tier 1, 2, 3 only
    • (^) Heading 1: UPPERCASE, BOLD
    • (^) Heading 2: Title Case, Bold
    • (^) Heading 3: Sentence case only
    • (^) Maximum of 5 tier for rest of document ACADEMIC WRITING
  1. Numerals and Units
  • (^) Spell out numerals up to ten
  • (^) Use comma for thousand mark
  • (^) Use First, Second, not 3rd
  • (^) Use 20 February, 2014
  • (^) Use 1930s not 1930’s
  • (^) Use Metres in text but 20m for SI units
  • (^) British English, please
    1. Definitions: For specific terms
    2. Nomenclature: Biological, Latin, Vernacular words italicised
    3. Abbreviations and Acronyms: Capitalised on first use then abbreviation in parenthesis. Thereafter, abbreviation/acronym only may be used.
    • (^) Ahmadu Bello University (ABU)
    • (^) Quotations:
    • (^) <50 words, in-text using “blablabla”
    • (^) >50 words, new paragraph, no quotation marks
    • (^) “Single ‘for quote’ within a quote” ACADEMIC WRITING
  • (^) One-sided typing
  • (^) A4 size
  • (^) Times New Roman size 12
  • (^) Double spacing for text
  • (^) Single spacing for indented Quote and Equations
  • (^) Justify margins
  • (^) Extra line between paragraphs
  • (^) 3.5cm left margin, 2.5cm for the rest
  • (^) Same type-face
  • (^) Footnotes are discouraged, or at end of Chapter ACADEMIC WRITING

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FORMATTING PICTURES

Referencing and Plagiarism

  1. American Psychological Association (APA)
  2. Name-year format
  3. Alphabetical Reference list
  4. Second and subsequent lines of reference indented
  5. Title case
  6. ALL citations must be in the Reference list
  7. In-text citations: Surname (2014), or Two Authors (2014), or italicised Surmame et al (2014)
  8. List of References
  • (^) At end of Document REFERENCING: APA
  • (^) Book Reference
  • (^) One Author: Surname, A.B.C (2014) Then The Italicised Title Of Paper In Title Case, Name the Publisher Ltd, City, Country, pp 1-
  • (^) Two authors: Surname, A. B. C and Surname, D. E. (2014) Then The Italicised Title Of Paper In Title Case, Name the Publisher Ltd, City, Country, pp 1-
  • (^) Journal Reference
  • (^) One Author: Surname, A.B.C (2014). The title of paper non-italicised, Then The Italicised Title Of Journal in full and In Title Case, 1(2): 1-
  • (^) Two authors: Surname, A. B. C and Surname, D. E. (2014). The title of paper non-italicised, Then The Italicised Title Of Journal in full and In Title Case, 1(2): 1-
  • (^) 1: Volume
  • (^) 2: Issue REFERENCING: APA
  • (^) Edited Book
  • (^) Conference paper
  • (^) Conference Proceedings
  • (^) Newspaper articles
  • (^) Web documents and Sites
  • (^) Other electronic media (including PhD thesis)
  • (^) Audio-visual and other media
  • (^) Legislation and legal Authorities
  • (^) Unpublished works REFERENCING: APA