ACADEMIC WRITING

ACADEMIC WRITING

1. definition

   • Any writing assignment given in an academic setting.

2. Difficulties

   • Poor vocabulary
   • Wrong use of connectors
   • Poor presentation of arguments
   • Organization of paragraphs
   • Too long paragraphs or sentences

3. Examples

   • Essays
   • Book reports
   • Research paper
   • Translations

4. Strategies: Depending on your writing skills, you might follow specific techniques given here.

   • 2. Organize the ideas based on the structure, for instance, the ones that can make up the introduction, the body and the conclusion
   • 1. Write all the ideas in sentence-form about the theme
   • 4. Proofread your writing
   • 3. Use a synonym-antonym dictionary to avoid repetitions of either words or connectors.
   • 5. Finally, change the things that might interfere with the cohesion or coherence in the text.
   • 6. Repeat the process

5. Structure

   • Introduction
     • Outline your thesis
   • Body
     • Explain or clarify your main ideas
   • Conclusion
     • Reemphasize all the main points