Concise

Whatever you write in an academic context can be hard, most of it is serious stuff. Texts full of industry specific vocabulary. Therefore it is important that you write as concise as possible.

One way to write more concisely is to use noun phrases. In noun phrases we turn verbs into noun. For example:

Students often need to be encouraged.

Students often need encouragement.

What helps me is to just type the verb from my sentence in to Google, plus the word noun. And then rephrase my sentence.