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I <u>am speaking </u> to the director as he was leaving the room
Answer: So basically Academic writing is a clear, concise, focussed, structured and backed up writing by evidence. It has a formal tone and style, but it is not complex and does not require the use of long sentences and complicated vocabulary. Some features are complexity, formality, precision, objectivity, explicitness, accuracy, hedging, responsibility, organization and planning. Hope this helps.
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This is a sort of tricky question! The first rewrite isn't grammatically correct, so I wouldn't use that one, and the second one still sounds negative, or aggressive. Maybe, 'I haven't enjoyed any of the films they have made this year.' or 'The films they have made this year aren't very likable.'
