What´s Academic Writing?

Academic writing is a critical part of your success as a college student, many professors require the kind of components that are included within academic writing. A rhetorical situation can be the sole factor that determines the key components within any piece of writing. It is also a way to show differences in pieces in academic writing, A rhetorical situation requires many elements this includes a properly composed thesis, ample research sources, carefully crafted citations and thorough checks for plagiarism through application, summarization and paraphrasing. Learning how to write academically shows that you know more than just the information you researched it’s a in depth analysis of the topic. Some people don’t learn how to write academically until they enter college. Being a real disadvantage because it can effect their grades and how other students and the professor perceived their work. Incorporating these elements to any form of writing can make it more interesting, engaging and pertain to your audience.

Academic writing can be defined in many different ways a formal definition, a extended definition and a stimulative definition. To be able define it formally includes a definition from a dictionary source. “Academic writing is the process of breaking down ideas and using deductive reasoning, formal voice, and third person point-of-view. It is about what you think and what evidence has contributed to that thinking (what is).” To define it as an extended definition you are required to explain the topic with more detailed information and in several sentences. Academic writing is base on analysis and includes the process of breaking down ideas, it is used to increase one’s understanding. Academic writing uses deductive re...

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