Academic Document Types
- Book, in many types and varieties.
- Book report.
- Conference paper.
- Dissertation; usually between 6,000 and 20,000 words in length.
- Essay; usually short, between 1,500 and 6,000 words in length.
- Explication; usually a short factual note explaining some obscure part of a particular work; e.g. its terminology, dialect, allusions or coded references.
- Research Article.
- Research Paper; longer essay involving library research, 3000 to 6000 words in length.
- Technical report
- Thesis; completed over a number of years, often in excess of 20,000 words in length.
- Translation.
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