03 figures of speech in English academic writing.pdf

Figuresof Speech inEnglishAcademicWriting Figuresof Speech inEnglishAcademicWriting FFiigguurreessooffSSppeeeecchhiinnEEnngglliisshhAAccaaddeemmiiccWWrriittiinngg To make writing efficient, effective and impressive, people havea lot of methodsno matter whatlanguage they are using. In lectures and books about writing people have a lot of rules such as 3Cs – clearness, conciseness and completeness; 4Cs -- clearness, conciseness, completeness and creativity; or 6Cs -- clearness, conciseness completeness, consistency, creativity and consideration; and other terms such as vividness and originality and so forth. In different areas, people’swriting is of different styles and they have different skills to achieve theoutcome they intended to. Figures of speech, in general, are taken as powerful skills in pieces of literature. However, when we are reading famous academic works, whether articles or books, we find a lot of figures of speech to make authors’ writing clear, concise, vivid, effective and impressive. Reading classics in economics, finance, management, philosophy, law andso forth, such as AnInquiryintotheNatureandCausesoftheWealthofNations byAdam Smith, Dao-De-Jingby Lao Zi, and Economicsby PaulW.Samuelson and William D. Nordhaus though it’squite a modern work (in a practical senseof a ‘classical work’), we feel greatly impressed and touched by their figures of speech, which are very powerful to help authors’expressing and readers’understanding. In this book we take samples only from the articles we focus on so that we experience the reality of authors’ applying figures of speech in academic works because what we get are not classics though they are from first-class journals and by presentfamousacademics. In academic writing themostcommonfigures ofspeechare metaphorandanalogy. I.Simile I.Simile II..SSiimmiillee 1.definition 1.definition 11..ddeeffiinniittiioonn Asimile is an obviouscomparison ofonethingto anotherto showthesimilarity. 2.func