Abstract:Academic writing, with some specific characteristics, is different from other writing, such as writing novels or writing travel books. Analysis of these characteristics plays a very important role in helping undergraduate and graduate students, and even doctoral candidates to academically write because there is an urgent need in China for graduate students, especially doctoral students to get their academic papers published in world famous magazines with high scientific citation index (SCI) or high social scientific citation index (SSCI), which are mostly in English. As a result, more and more experts and students will turn to academic writing, whose specific writing characteristics will draw more people’s attention. Among all these characteristics, grammatical characteristics seem to play an important role. This paper aims to work out some characteristics of academic writing in the aspect of grammar, such as tense and sentence structure. The first chapter mainly introduces different meanings concerning the term academic writing and its three different kinds. The second chapter mainly focuses on the relationships between academic writing and English tense as well as sentence structure. Chapter Three is the body part of the whole passage. In this chapter, grammatical characteristics of academic writing are studied from three parts and some reasons are given to explain these specific characteristics. Some personal suggestions are also made, which are intended to help those who are going to write academic papers. The last chapter summarizes the whole paper. 

Keywords: academic writing; grammatical aspect; analysis

Contents

中文摘要

Abstract

Chapter 1 Introduction-1

Chapter 2 Major Grammatical Characteristics-4

2.1 Brief Introduction to Major Grammatical Characteristics-4

2.2 Classifications of Grammar-4

2.2.1 Major Tenses-4

2.2.2 Major Sentence Structures-5

Chapter 3 Grammatical Analysis of Academic Writing-7

3.1 Brief Introduction to This Chapter-7

3.2 Grammatical Analysis of the Part of Introduction-7

3.3 Grammatical Analysis of the Part of Results-8

3.4 Grammatical Analysis of the Part of Discussion-10

Chapter 4 Conclusion-12

References-13

Acknowledgements-14

Appendix 30 Sample Papers-15