From Colloquial to Academic Writing

As an exercise I will re-write a couple of paragraphs from my “Working in the Creative Industries-group discussion”  in a more academic style.

This is an extract from the article: “There are many job opportunities in the creative industries, so you’ll likely be able to move a lot and work in different places with different people, if that’s what you’re after.

As with any other job if you enjoy what you’re doing and are really enthusiastic about it, working days are going to run smoothly and you’re actually going to be excited to wake up in the morning. If not maybe try something different, there’s always a new chance!”

It could be re-written as: “Since the creative industries offer many job opportunities, people who work in this field have the chance to travel and work in many different job environments.

As with any other job the key to be successful is to enjoy what one does and be enthusiastic about it. Psychological satisfaction affects productivity and all in all performance. A toxic workplace is counterproductive for both the individual and the company.”

In academic writing abbreviations should be avoided, e.g. “it is” instead of “it’s”;

direct reference to the readers should be avoided, e.g. use of the more general word “one” instead of “you”;

rephrase excessively colloquial expressions, e.g. “Psychological satisfaction” instead of     “to be excited to wake up in the morning”;

use linking words to create a connection between different paragraphs so that it’s easier  to follow the train of thoughts, e.g. “since”, “therefore”, “albeit” etc.