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Match the colours across the examples to see the
alternative words.
| FORMAL TEXT |
INFORMAL TEXT |
| The relationship between television
and cinema grew
increasingly symbiotic in the 1980's as television
companies invested heavily
in feature film making. |
T.V. and the
movies got more and more dependent
on each other in the 1980's as T.V.
companies put a lot of money
into making movies. |
Notice the shift in the vocabulary from the informal to the formal text:
more sophisticated word choices have been made.
Look at these excerpts from the model texts. This is another example
that clearly shows that the words you choose to express your ideas can
vastly effect the formality of your text.
| FORMAL TEXT |
INFORMAL TEXT
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| The relative disadvantage of women
with regard to their earnings and levels of asset ownership indicates
that within classes there is further economic inequity based on
gender... |
Women earn less than men and own less than
men. Why is this so? |
The following section will help you to identify how to choose more sophisticated
words when writing in your academic area.
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