What Is Academic Writing?

What isAcademicWriting?APRIL 6

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Academic writing is:"The process of analysis - the process of breaking down ideas - to increase one's understanding of a subject and to present information that displays a clear understanding of that subject."

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What isAcademicWriting?

5 Minute Freewrite -Use these questions as a starting

point for your freewrite.

• What kind of writing have you done before?

• What do you think "academic" means?

• What do you think is the opposite of academic writing?

• When do you think it is appropriate to use academic writing style?

Two Kinds of Writing

Creative Writing Emphasis on emotion

Narrative arc

Creative license

Recreational reading

Academic Writing Emphasis on argument

Linear

No creative license

Educational reading

Purpose

Letter to your parents

Book report

Comedy

Drama

Thesis (Argument) BUILDING A HOUSE OF CARDS

The big idea

One sentence

Debatable

Reasonable 

Defendable

Characteristics

Precise

Complex

Explicit

Objective

Impersonal

Semi-formal

Responsibility

2012 R & E Papers

These are all good efforts, but they are not perfect. Look at them and try to decide what the students did right and what you could have done better.