Nermeen Abdullah Date: 2\4\2014 ENGH-122-AC3 Assignment: Academic Language Analysis draft #2 Wrong word form

In her Article Twitter: Microphone for the masses, in Media Culture and Society, Murthy (2011) argues about the twitter episode which speared around the world in all over the ages .She explains that Twitter was a transforming for citizen journalism which allows people to share their thoughts and means. In general, most of the academic writers try to show their argues and purposes in different ways. Therefore, the language and structural feature in the Twitter article highlights that academic writing in communication field values simple sentences, clear heading, indirect quotes and neutral verbs, showing descriptive, detailed and technical piece of writing that is clear to the reader and easy to understand. Murthy tries to use the natural verbs in all her article which means that she tries to inform not to persuade .I believe that she did not use any strong verbs and that makes me sure about her purpose. Her purpose is to show her argues by using neutral verbs to be unbiased. Neutrally and objectively is important to show that the article is none opinioned so, the academic writers in this field trying to use just one tone which is the natural verbs because they are just explaining and exploring without any bias in the opinion. Also, she used the present tens in all her article due to shows the current issue which is twitter episode, so she tries to show how must important this issue because it talks about current situation .If she used the past tens it seems like something does not important to talk about .All in all, the verb tens is important structural and linguistic Patterns in scientific writing which can allow the reader to judge the article.

Murthy tries to make her article more detailed by focusing into some points such as using the subjects as noun phrases the example of the subject as noun phrase showing that Murthy is trying to build the credibility in her article. For example if the reader see a lot of noun phrases instead of just simple subject, he would feel like the author has a lot of to say and has a lot of information to tell so, the reader probably will feel confident about the writer ideas and arguments .In addition, using the subject as noun phrase seems more complicated than the other nouns and that means it collects all the meaning of the sentences in just a couples of words.

While observing Murthys article, I found that her article is full of simple sentences. I can see that the numbers of the simple sentences in her article are more than the complex sentences and other kind of sentences, which represent that Murthy depends on simple sentences to explain her argues. Depending on the simple sentences shows the clarity of the ideas, ease of comprehension and helping the reader to get the argument easily. FRAG

Moving forward to the adverbs tones on her article, Murthy used the strong adverbs frequency. Strong adverbs show the confidence in the information. For example, she used the adverbs that represent the present time which represent the current issue, and that allows the reader to understand how much the information are fresh and new .For example, she used the word newly, recently and latterly. These adverbs give the reader sort of trust because its a recent new that based on recent studies, which makes her article more confidence and affective. Unlike if the article focus on the adverbs that show the past tens like previously, that will make the

reader think more about the information and how much reliable it is because previous studies might change at anytime.

Murthy divides her article to different paragraphs, which includes a title in every paragraph so it was clear and obvious. Making the article clear and obvious helps the reader to understand the main ideas of every paragraph without read the whole article, specially if someone is looking for something specific so he would just read the headlines .In addition, if the reader just collect all the headlines and the title of each paragraph he will properly understand what is the article about. For example, in page 781 the second paragraphs title says, What is twitter in practice so the reader will probably know that the paragraph are talking about twitters practices. Also, the last paragraph of her article was written above conclusion(785). Many writers do not write headings and they just end up their articles by some words to show that the article is finished or by summarizing the previous information, but Murthys article was really clear to show the conclusion and the main pontes for each paragraph. Academic writing always relays on the sources to show how much reliable is the article. Therefore, Murthys article is full of sources and references. That makes her article confidence and reliable. If you read her article you will find that between each four lines there is a source .The sources show how the information is reliable so, she depends on much sources and studies. Depending on sources specially a reliable source can contribute to academic writing conventions and an academic tone because it shows that the argument based on specifies studies which can turn into fact . In addition, Murthys paragraphs were full of explanations. The readers can see that from the headlines which like a methods or story and that makes the article more detailed. The

Detailed articles show how much specific it is, and they encourage readers to read more because they help them to understand the ideas. Understating the ideas of the paragraph is really hard, so murthy tries to explain her argues in each paragraph. For example, her articles titles were like how to do so. Properly if any one read it he will understand what is the author is talking about because there are lots of details and explanations, which contribute to the academic writing performance. In conclusion, Murthys article was organized and accurate from all sides .she focus on linguistic patterns and structure to build an affective article. Everything were calculated and count which make the article looks more formal and serious .In deed Murthy is successful to mange and equate between build an structure and the language affectively in the academic writing .

References Murthy, D. (2011). Twitter: Microphone for the masses? Media Culture & Society, 33(779), 780787.