Academic writing incorporates a certain tone and strictly uses traditional spelling, punctuation and grammar rules.

The focus of academic writing is the writer.

As a writer, a student is responsible for providing evidence to support his claim in his writing.

Academic writing requires abstract thoughts as you need to discuss philosophies, concepts and theories in the topics.

A student should not cite experts of a particular topic in academic writing.

Plagiarism is an academic offence, as it constitutes stealing other people's ideas and passing them off as your own.

You can reuse your essay from a previous semester in your current class assignment - any prior permission from your lecturer is not required.

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The clients are furious and disappointed with the services provided by the company.

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Haze is caused by the clearing of land inexpensively through open burning, so that oil palm trees can be planted.

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Students have different learning styles; teachers need to recognise each student's strengths and weaknesses, and assist the students according to their learning abilites.v

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Although his decision was risky, he succeeded in achieving his goal.

Bonus question:

How many marks for full term paper (first draft)?