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Academic Writing Concept 2013
Academic Writing Concept 2013
Academic Writing Concept 2013
SHORT OVERVIEW
Asih Nurakhir
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What to learn?
1. Academic writing skills
2. Formal writing: academic writing and informal
writing
3. Common grammatical mistakes in writing
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ACADEMIC WRITING
Academic writing plays a significant role in the field of
higher education. It has been long recognized as an
essential skill university students need to master.
ACADEMIC WRITING is one type of writing used to express
acquired knowledge in a specific subject area.
Such writing tends to be serious in nature and often
demonstrates particular theories or arguments in relation
to a specified discourse.
Students who study in university of various majors of study
will deal with this kind of writing as the primary form of
communication within individual subject disciplines.
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ACADEMIC WRITING
Writing in academic contexts requires students to advance
their own ideas within a framework of domain or discipline
knowledge and engage the reader in academic discourse.
This ability has been one of the factors which determine the
success of the study as revealed by many researches.
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Informal writing
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Examples
Formal writing: papers for school/colleges, college essays,
research papers, conference presentations
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