Academic writing

review various types of information from different sources including online search tools, books and journals. The secondary purpose is to analyse the development of my writing and referencing skills. The article critiques my understanding of the importance of a CV, my ability to evaluate a book, a journal and how to further my academic skills such as referencing. ‘Critical thinking and reflection is thought of as a process of analysing and evaluating information’ (Naber and Wyatt, 2013).…

Over 15 years ago, Robert Nash (2011) developed a new academic writing style called Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN). For the first time in academics the unacceptable use of the ‘subjective I [me]’was acceptable in scholarly writing. Before SPN only the ‘objective they [we]’ was appropriate for research because scholars believed that only experts could support an agreeable or disagreeable topic. Nash (2011) wanted SPN to become, “a respectable research genre in higher education,…

resources such as Wikipedia is becoming a more common practice for university students when researching their studies. Many academics find Wikipedia to be an unacceptable reference source and generally will avoid using it in academic writings. Regardless of how popular it has become, Wikipedia should not be used as a reference source due to scarceness of research compared to an academic journal. Containing no credibility of the contribution to where the information came from, or how it was…

“Having made his living as a writer (including winning a Pulitzer prize as a newspaper columnist, writing textbooks, and publishing a range of poetry and fiction), Murray disagreed. Writing, he thought, is always personal, whatever else it is." (page 65). Murray in this literary work takes the voice of an educator, and generates a grandfatherly narrative, even though this is an academic writing. The way he writes this academic work portrayed the meaning behind the paper, the way he writes the…

analysis introduces a person to writing within a specific language used by the scholars. Genre analysis of a scholarly journal helps us to ponder the parts of writing that work together in unity and to understand that research is part of an ongoing conversation. There are many other approaches to showing a genre analysis of a scholarly journal, or any genre for that matter. Academic textbooks present the abstract at the beginning of academic article. The used of academic article language is…

Scholarly writing is considered to be a much more advanced and intense style of writing. This style of writing is utilized to assist the writer in trying to convince the reader of his beliefs through his analysis and findings of a certain research versus using just his words. Scholarly writing involves several components. These components include research and analysis, a formalized writing style, and a bibliography or reference list. Scholarly writing is the foundation for most journal articles…

incorporated in all aspects of our education. Haven and Keller show different aspects of the debate of academic writing in this new era of technology. Keller points out there are positive and negative affects of technology in academic writing. Haven and Keller both understand the data is up for debate and there is more research that needs to be done. Keller talks about not pushing aside the new writing that has been forged by technology. We as a culture must continually adapt our education to…

they will understand. Yet, in several instances the reader does not understand how rhetoric’s role comes into play and how the writer intended to use these rhetorical concepts. In the texts, Writing with Teachers: A Conversation with Peter Elbow by David Bartholomae, and, Being a Writer vs. Being and Academic: A Conflict in Goals by Peter Elbow, rhetorical concepts such as ethos for example, are analyzed by the intended audience to help gain a better understanding of their main goals and the…

Questions College level writing teaches and requires academic writing to all the scholars. This is required for any type of writing or paper the students need to submit for review. Dartmouth (2015) states that academic writing should present an informed argument to the reader. The purpose of academic writing, as Dartmouth says, is to inform the audience about certain arguments. This entitles research to be done to support the arguments. Besides conducting academic writing, scholars are required…

English writing is a big challenge for us. I still remember the first time I went to the classroom of English 725. I was pretty nervous because I knew academic writing is hard, but very important for my learning life. Through four quarters of study English academic writing, I feel more confident because I have learned lot academic writing skills from those courses, which helped me be a better writer on multiple aspects. When I study in English 725, I did not know anything about English academic…