Academic writing

What is 'academic writing'?

• A technique to write balanced, accurate and professional assignments

• An old-fashioned way of writing

• How university professors write

• The writing you find in textbooks

The main difference between academic writing and normal writing is that academic writing:

• Uses longer words

• Tries to be precise and unbiased

• Is harder to understand

Teachers complain most about students:

• not answering the question given

• not writing enough

• not referencing properly

What is the structure of a paragraph?

• Topic Sentence + Supporting Sentence(s) + Concluding Sentence

• Supporting Sentence(s) + Topic Sentence + Concluding Sentence

What are the purposes of doing an academic writing?

• To settle, to negotiate and to inform

• To defend, to challenge and to question

• To guess, to hypothesize and to make conclusions

• To inform, to persuade and to argue a specific point

Writing academic papers requires deliberate, thorough and careful thought. Therefore, what should one do to achieve a well-crafted academic essay?

• One must depend on his/her own opinions alone.

• One must not consult the Internet for unsure sources.

• One must conduct a research on the topic at hand.

• One must depend highly on the Internet for easy information access.

The list of words that cannot be used in academic writing is ...

• piece of cake, buddy, buzz off

• optimal, likely, suggest

• average, excellence, primary

• reveal, imply, recommendation

Students are not expected to take a critical approach to the sources that they read.

• True

• False

When you are reading a reliable text you don't need to question anything that is written.

• True

• False

What is the purpose of the topic sentence?

• To give coherence to the paragraph.

• To help with the flow of sentences.

• To help the reader understand what the paragraph will be about.

• None of the above.