Representing actions with nouns

Overview

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Reasons for using nominalisation

There are a number of reasons why writers might choose to represent an action, process or state as a noun:

	One reason is that nominalisation enables writers to express complex ideas concisely, and in an appropriately technical manner, and even to deliberately omit certain information which they may want to withhold from the reader.
	Another reason is that a whole clause can be summed up in one word (called a summarising noun ), which can help make writing coherent and easy to process.

For further information about these and other reasons, see Representing actions with nouns: Reasons for representing actions with nouns.

Introduction
Examples which illustrate the concept of nominalisation
Reasons for using nominalisation
 A special type of nominalisation
 Types and styles of writing containing nominalisation