Rules in Teaching the Conventions of Academic Discourse

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According to Theresa Thonney, academic writers should be guided by specific rules to enhance their writing standards. Theresa Thonney has provided six crucial rules that academic writers should apply in the “Teaching the Conventions of Academic Discourse” article. Discusses rules include “writers respond to what others have said about their topic, writers state the value of their work and announce the plan for their papers, writers acknowledge that others might disagree with the positions they have taken, writers adopt a voice of authority, writers use academic and discipline-specific vocabulary, and writers emphasize evidence, often in tables, graphs, and images (Thonney, p347-362)
Firstly, writers should always acknowledge work for other writers through quoting them; for example, …technology is life (Smith, 2006). Under this rule, academic writers should enter into a conversation with the article by addre...