Academic writing and referencing styles

9 Outubro 2019, 15:00 • Marta Pacheco Pinto

During this session, we carried on examining the main conventions and features of academic writing, in addition to pointing out the main differences between English and Portuguese academic discourses based on K. Bennett’s article “Epistemicide! The Tale of a Predatory Discourse”. Several checklists for guaranteeing coherence across the PhD thesis were also presented. The use of quotations – how and when to use – was also covered in the discussion. The last part of the session was on citation styles used in the Humanities (MLA, the Chicago Manual of Style, Harvard, the 405 Portuguese norm) as well as on citation management software.