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    Avoiding Colloquial Language in Academic Writing

    Academic writing demands a formal tone characterised by careful language choices to convey ideas to readers as precisely and unambiguously as possible. Colloquial language, defined as language that is ‘normally restricted to informal (esp[ecially] spoken) English’ (Burchfield, 2004), does not satisfy this need for exactness of expression. Instead, as Pam…