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NOMINALIZATION

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NOMINALIZATION

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ACADEMIC
WRITING
NOMINALIZATION
• WHAT? • Nominalization is the
formation of a noun
phrase done by
changing verbs or other
words to nouns.
• WHY?
• To formalize writing, to
focus on objects or
concepts.
• WHERE? • In academic writing or
formal documents.
NOMINALIZATION
Non-Formal Formal
All organisms reproduce and sometimes when Reproduction with variation is a major
they reproduce, the children vary. This is an characteristic of life. Without reproduction, life
important characteristic of life. If organisms would quickly come to an end. The earliest
did not reproduce, life would quickly come to single-celled organisms reproduced by
an end. How did the earliest single-celled duplicating their genetic material and then
organisms reproduce? They duplicated their dividing in two. The two resulting daughter cells
were identical to each other and to the parent
genetic material and then they divided in two.
cell, except for mutations that occurred during
Two daughter cells resulted from this process;
the process of gene duplication. Such errors,
they were identical to each other and to the although rare, provided the raw material for
parent cell. But sometimes as the genes biological evolution. The combination of
duplicated, they changed or mutated. These reproduction and errors in the duplication of
errors are not very common but they provide genetic material results in biological evolution, a
the basic material for life to evolve. So when change in the genetic composition of a
the genetic material duplicates, they population of organisms over time.
reproduce and they make errors. As a result,
there is a change in what the genes are W. K. Purves, D. Sadava, G. H. Orians & H. C.
composed of. When these processes combine, Heller, Life: The science of biology, W. H.
life evolve. Freeman, 2004
Task A, Identifying Nominalisation in Sentences (Multi-select Exercise)

Read the sentences and select the ones that have noun phrases. (You will
need to select several answers.)

– He is from Canada.
– The professor asked the students to submit their papers at the end of the class.
– The Support Suite of the English Language Centre provides programmes that
help students with all aspects of English.
– We love English because it is fun to speak.
– The English Language Mentoring Scheme is one that provides speaking and
cultural exchange in fun settings with exchange students.
– The Department of English at the university offers Gateway Education courses.
– It is wonderful to learn languages because they can open doors.
– Teachers seldom teach anything useful to students' future work.
Task A, Identifying Nominalisation in Sentences (Multi-select Exercise)

Read the sentences and select the ones that have noun phrases. (You will
need to select several answers.)

– He is from Canada.
– The professor asked the students to submit their papers at the end of the class.

– The Support Suite of the English Language Centre provides programmes that help
students with all aspects of English. 
– We love English because it is fun to speak.
– The English Language Mentoring Scheme is one that provides speaking and
cultural exchange in fun settings with exchange students. 
– The Department of English at the university offers Gateway Education courses. 
– It is wonderful to learn languages because they can open doors.
– Teachers seldom teach anything useful to students' future work. 
Task B, Academic Tone and Style: Nominalisation (Identifying Head Nouns, MC Exercise)

What is the 'head (main) noun' in the following noun phrase? (There is
only one.)

1. '...a previously unknown landscape painting by Vincent Van Gogh...'

2. '...the first full-size canvas by Van Gogh discovered since 1928.‘
3. 'a high correlation between higher education and cultural and family
values'
4. '...new research techniques after a two-year investigation,‘
5. '...a painting that has been lost for more than 100 years'.
6. 'low-income families who have a difficult time making ends meet'
7. 'the earnings differential between college and high school graduates‘
8. 'considerable support for the notion that the rate of return on
investment in higher education'
Task B, Academic Tone and Style: Nominalisation (Identifying Head Nouns, MC Exercise)

What is the 'head (main) noun' in the following noun phrase? (There is
only one.)

1. '...a previously unknown landscape painting by Vincent Van Gogh...'

2. '...the first full-size canvas by Van Gogh discovered since 1928.‘
3. 'a high correlation between higher education and cultural and
family values'
4. '...new research techniques after a two-year investigation,‘
5. '...a painting that has been lost for more than 100 years'.
6. 'low-income families who have a difficult time making ends meet'
7. 'the earnings differential between college and high school
graduates‘
8. 'considerable support for the notion that the rate of return on
investment in higher education'
Task C, Academic Tone and Style, Nominalisation, Unscramble Exercise Q1

The sentences that follow are too simple and

repetitive for good university writing.

Combine all of the ideas in these simple SVO

sentences into ONE complex noun phrase by
dragging and dropping each word onto the lines
in correct sequence.
There is a painting.
It is by Vincent van Gogh.
It is of a landscape.
It was not known previously.

painting/Vincent van
Gogh/unknown/A/landscape/by/previously

A previously unknown landscape painting by Vincent

van Gogh
There are research techniques.
The research techniques are new.
There was an investigation.
The investigation took two years.

research/two-year/techniques/…new/and/
investigation…

...new research techniques and a two-year

investigation...
It was a heath.
The heath was stony.
There were oaks growing.
The oaks were small.
The oaks were twisted.
twisted/grow…/…a/small/oaks/stony/heath/where