Importance Of Academic Writing

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Writing is a skill and that, like any skill, it can be improved through guidance practice. Writing enables us to learn a set of concepts and a vocabulary of language analysis and rhetorical strategy. The more we know about how language and persuasion work, the more features of style and argument we can recognize and use.

Academic Writing:

Why Writing?

Promotes language development.

Shapes and creates our knowledge.

Visualization of Thinking.

Reflection on and revision of your thinking.

Popular Writing Trends

Writer – Oriented Writing--->
Audience: Self
Purpose : Personal exploration of ideas.
Language: Informal
Forms: Journals, notes & rough drafts etc.

Reader – Oriented Writing
Audience: Others
Purpose: communication between Individuals
Language: Primarily formal
Forms: essays, paper & Letters etc.

Text Types

Casual Analysis – The purpose of a casual – analysis is to explain the causes of something.

Problem solving – The purpose of a problem – solving text is to propose a solution to a problem.

Argumentation – The purpose of an argumentative text is to make a claim about something, or to state a position on a issue.

Summarizing – The purpose of a summary is to give an abbreviated version.

Steps in Writing Process

Pre – Writing Activities
Reading, note taking, brainstorming, mind mapping and reader analysis.

Drafting

Feedback & Revision
Peer response
Teacher response
Revision

Evaluation & Grading

Why Scientific Writing ?

State your facts as simply as possibly, even boldly. No one wants flowers of eloquence or literary ornaments in a research article.
- R.B McKerrow

Characteristics of Scientific Writing

The need for clarity
Receiving the signals
Understanding the signals
Appropriate use of language

Origins of Scientific Writing

Early History
Cave paintings & inscriptions carved onto rocks
Chaldean account of the flood inscribed on a clay tablet in about 4000 B.C. is the earliest book we know.
Papyrus came into use in 190 B.C.
Chinese invented paper in 105 A.D.
First scientific journal appeared in 1665.

Academic Writing : Three Approaches

The Product Approach
The Process Approach
The integrated Approach

The Product Approach

Pre-occupied with the finished product in directing its learners towards pre-specified objectives.

In product approach a students attention focuses on adhering to and duplicating models and in particular on correct language.

The product approach encourages students to use the same plan in a multitude of settings, applying the same form regardless of content.

The Process Approach

The process approach developed by way of a reaction to the confines presented by the product approach.

The process approach empowered students to make clearer decisions about the direction of their writing ‘by means of discussion, tasks, drafting, feedback and informed choices’ .

Encouraging students to assume greater responsibility for making their own improvements.

The Integrated Approach

Integrated approach emphasizes :
Recreating the conditions under which actual academic writing is performed, including: real academic time constraints

Students working on their own specialized subjects

Students focused on the needs of respective readership

Presentation of text in an acceptable, discipline – specific form.

Importance Of Academic Writing

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