Paper Title
Teaching Challenging Issues Related to the Vocabulary and Style in Military Writing
Abstract
The article with the title “Teaching challenging issues related to the vocabulary and style in military writing”
talks about the vocabulary and the style used by the military personnel in military writing and the challenging task the
teacher has in front while teaching it. Teaching Writing for Professional Purposes in English as a second language is a
challenging task for a teacher. Among the four skills to be taught in a foreign language, the writing skill is the most difficult
one to teach and learn since the writer has to pay attention to many things like, style, grammatical structure, format and the
lexical resource. Since the military writing and the language used within the armed forces includes all aspects of service life,
it can be described as a “code”. Like all the other closed communities even the military personnel has developed its own
jargon, partly as a means of self-identification full of positive and negative terms or words with positive and negative
connotations. Most often this jargon is incomprehensible for the outsiders; and this incomprehensibility arises from the use
of the technical terms, jargon, acronyms and other syntactical issues. The language used from the military personnel has its
own characteristics that have to deal with the vocabulary, the abbreviations and their shades of meaning. This article will
particularly discuss those elements of the vocabulary and style that make military writing a challenging task for the teacher
and the student. Elements like the use of short words, everyday language words, using a single word instead of a whole
expression, the use of derived nouns from certain verbs instead of the verb, use of the suffix “-ize”, abbreviations and
abbreviated phrases and absolute phrases that make the so-called specialized vocabulary
Key words - Military Writing, vocabulary, style, teaching, abbreviations