What is academic writing?
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How does academic writing differ from other types of writing? It differs a lot, because it is another level of writing, you have to take a lot of details into consideration such as write with coherence and cohesion, you have to give your own opinion about it, an arguable thesis, and you have to be clear. Also beside these things you have to avoid redundancy, write with appropriate words, use synonyms, do not use contraction etc…
What is the function of academic papers? The function of academic papers is to create a new knowledge from the one that is already given from other authors.
What are the concepts of academic writing? Academic writing has to be done in a clear and interesting way, in order that the community shows interest on it. Academic writing is writing done by scholars for other scholars. Academic writing should present the reader with an informed argument.
What does the following statement mean? Academic writing is writing done by scholars to other scholars?
This means that you are in a community of scholars. So you have to write, to think and to argue about things that other students already write about it.
Is it okay to include personal responses why? Yes because if you don’t write your personal response, it going to seem that you are stoling the ideas of others.
How does one form an informed argument? First you have to consider how much you know about the topic, you can answer the wh questions; then you have to see what is important to you about the topic; you have to know How does this topic relate to other things that you know and what you do not know about it.
How does academic writing differ from other types of writing?
It is a different way to write because it must be formal, but the autor have to write about interesting topic for students and teachers. This kind of writing it is very useful because contain an important and reliable information.
What is the function of academic papers?
The main purpose is: to give information about a particular topic and provide the specific information for the readers in order to understand the topic in a easy way.
What are the concepts of academic writing?
1)Academic writing is writing done by scholars for other scholars. 2)Academic writing is devoted to topics and questions that are of interest to the academic community. 3)Academic writing should present the reader with an informed argument.
What does the following statement mean? ...academic writing is writing done by scholars for other scholars.
I think that it refers to the audience in this case the students write for the other student to share their knowledge about topics that they to know.
Is it okay to include personal responses in an academic paper, why?
Yes, because it is necessary to give our point of view, but we have to be careful because we have to be critical and analytical at the moment to write our opinion of a specific topic.
How does one form an informed argument?
I think that we have to have in mind our knowledge about the topic. Then when we have clear our knowledge or information about the topic we could continue with the researching for more information of the topic. An finally with have to analyze the new information and put together with our information.
