Level 6 reading passages are often written the way a Korean paper or textbook is written. So is everything a student reads in a Korean university from the first week.
The news course unpicked the style of an article. This course unpicks the style of a paper. The grammar is mostly grammar you know; what is new is how it is packed.
| Feature | Everyday | Academic |
|---|---|---|
| Ending | 조사했어요 | 조사하였다 |
| The writer | 저는 · 제가 | 본 연구는 · 연구자는 |
| The text itself | 이 글에서 | 본고에서는 |
| Packing | 사람들이 어떻게 생각하는지 바뀌었다 | 인식의 변화가 나타났다 |
1 · The writer hides behind the study
An essay avoids 나는; a paper goes further and makes the study the subject. 본 연구는 … 을 목적으로 한다 — this study aims to …. 본 is a formal this, the same piece you will meet in 본사 and 본인.
When a sentence has 본 연구 or 본고 as its subject, the writer is talking about their own work.
2 · Long noun phrases
The biggest difference is packing. Where speech uses a clause — 사람들이 어떻게 생각하는지 — academic prose uses a noun — 인식. Then it chains nouns with 의 and 에 대한.
Read such phrases from the right: the last noun is what the phrase is about, and everything before it narrows it.
Day 1 words
In 본 연구는, who is being referred to?
In a long noun phrase, which noun do you find first?
Before the quiz
- I recognise -였다 as a formal 했다.
- I know 본 연구 and 본고 mean the writer's own work.
- I read long noun phrases from the right.
- I expect nouns where speech would use a clause.