What is Academic Writing? APRIL 6 Have your lecture notes worksheet ready, please
Nov 07, 2014
What isAcademicWriting?APRIL 6
Have your lecture notes worksheet ready, please
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.