ness Academic language is also typically more abstract than everyday conversation. A math text, for example, might contain abstract nouns such as length, width, circumference, addition, and subtraction. A biology text might contain abstract nouns for processes, such as respiration or mitosis. Putting These Together What we want to stress here is that these six facts about academic language are ...

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