What Is Academic Writing?
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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."
understandingIncrease
one's
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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?
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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
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Purpose
Letter to your parents
Book report
Comedy
Drama
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Thesis (Argument) BUILDING A HOUSE OF CARDS
The big idea
One sentence
Debatable
Reasonable
Defendable
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Characteristics
Precise
Complex
Explicit
Objective
Impersonal
Semi-formal
Responsibility
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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.