Mecanismos

ACADEMIC WRITING
ACADEMIC WRITING

* Consider your position: What you know, what you think.
* Consider the audience.
* Documents used
* Summarize
* Evaluate
* Analyze* Consider your position: What you know, what you think.
* Consider the audience.
* Documents used
* Summarize
* Evaluate
* Analyze
Formal: Academic writing is formal. Youshould not use ‘casual’ language in your assignments
Others: Academic writing normally builds on what others have previously done and thought about your subject.
Cautious: Academic writing is oftenrather cautious. (This is because academic thinking is rather cautious.) Words like ‘possibly’, ‘probably’, ‘likely’, ‘seems’, ‘may’ and ‘could’ tend to feature in good academic writing.
Succinct:Readers of your assignments need to understand exactly what you mean, and in as few words as possible. You need to be as precise and concise as possible.
Impersonal: Academic writing is usuallyimpersonal. . So instead of writing ‘I am surprised that…’ you might write ‘It is surprising that…’
Be objective.
Formal: Academic writing is formal. You should not use ‘casual’ language in your assignmentsOthers: Academic writing normally builds on what others have previously done and thought about your subject.
Cautious: Academic writing is often rather cautious. (This is because academic thinkingis rather cautious.) Words like ‘possibly’, ‘probably’, ‘likely’, ‘seems’, ‘may’ and ‘could’ tend to feature in good academic writing.
Succinct: Readers of your assignments need to understand exactlywhat you mean, and in as few words as possible. You need to be as precise and concise as possible.
Impersonal: Academic writing is usually impersonal. . So instead of writing ‘I am surprised that…’you might write ‘It is surprising that…’
Be objective.
Any writing that fulfills a purpose of education
It is 'structured research' written by 'scholars' for other scholars.

Any writing that...