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Academic Writing summary

The secret to have a good academic writing is based on how well we understand the

things we are writing, with a good knowledge of the topic that the students is trying,

they will get a good academic writing.

There are some myths about writing, some of them are the paint by numbers which

is about writers that think that the texts or essays have to have a certain order to be

correctly, also they repeat the same words in many times. Another myth is the

Writers only start writing when they have everything figured out, this talks about the

writers that investigate a lot what they want to write instead of wait for good ideas.

The myth # 3 is Perfect first drafts and is about make unrealistic drafts when the

writers do not have too much knowledge of a topic. According to the document these

are some myths to mention about academic writing, but the most important of the

myths is the number 5 good grammar is good writing, its own name tell us the

meaning of this myth, someone who has a good grammar can make writings easily

and with a good understanding, but this is not the only aspect that we have to keep

in mind when we will write a document.

The academic writing.

The biggest problem the author see in the freshman writer is the poor sense of

writing, and to solve this situation it is necessary to compare between speak and

write; when we speak, the communication could be fluent, understandable and an

important aspect is that we see the audience when we talk, but in writing the things
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change, we dont see whom is going to read our words, so many of the freshman

writers write without sense, as if they were talking each other without know that a

lector or someone else will read the text.

Writing in collage could be fairly for someone, the professor of the Prepperdine

University, Lee Ann Carroll, made a study of student writing and his results were that

academic writing is always a form of evaluation that asks you to demonstrate

knowledge, sense and proficiency with some skills of thinking, interpreting and

presenting.

Also we might have a knowledge of research skills because most of the students

always take information from Google or Wikipedia to make their documents, but in

college is necessary to know how to use libraries, online libraries or another way to

get better information because college writing typically asks you to write unfamiliar

topics, so to get greatest results in writing we have to research as much as we can.

Whatever you read, your ability to write will be based on your understanding from

something you read, so we should think critically, recognize biases and assumptions

and the most important thing, if we are going to make an essay or summary of a

book, understand is the key to realize these activities.

Academic writing is an argument.

Why academic writing is an argument? Simply, because when we are discussing

about a topic, before shouting, a good argument always makes you earn an

audience and take their attention. As we saw in the document, the example of the

lawyer who is the writer and the readers (in this case) are the jury, if we dont have
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a good argument when writing our jury will reject the document, so this is one of the

most important or maybe the more important things about academic writing.

Remember: a good argument could make the difference, you can win a discussion,

and it make ourselves more confident when writing and makes our writing more

professional.

For the last, Academic Writing also is an analysis, before to create a text we should

analyze all the components we need, also the expectation from the person who

commissioned the text. Having all these aspects in mind academic writing will be

developing very fast.