Personal and Social Responsibility
Put it in Writing
Colloquialisms and Slang
Colloquial Language is informal language used in everyday speech.
Slang is informal language used by certain groups of people which is created by its users and is more informal than colloquial speech.
Neither are appropriate in academic writing (unless they serve a distinct and measurable purpose in your writing. For example: in dialogue)
In the previous lessons, you have explored ways to write and persuade more formally by using compound and complex sentences with phrases, clauses and modifiers.
Review and practice editing Colloquialisms here.