AW-1-Introduction

They have intimate knowledge in specific discipline and keep abreast of the latest developments in that area. To be concerned with them is a step further to a successful writing and communication.
1.2.1 Determining your purpose
No matter what kind of writing you do, you should have a specific and clear purpose. In academic writing, the purpose is often to explain, inform or summarize, whereas journalistic writing usually seeks to inform or to persuade. Writing for scientific purposes may be to inform your audience of your scientific discovery, research findings or experimental results.
A letter to your parents or your spouse would have a casual and intimate tone and many slang words or informal words and structures would be used. However, an application for a position in a big company or a famous university in the US would have quite a different tone from a letter to your family. It would be formal and serious. A scientific report or an article for a leading journal would take a different form.
You must be very clear about what you are going to write is original thinking rather than it is just common knowledge. As you conduct your research, you learn new materials by building on what you already know. You are expected to think about that new material, formulate a thesis statement about it, and organize the information to write a research paper about it.
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Academic Writing
Objectives of the course
The objectives of the course is to enable students to: produce academic research papers for term assignments and for publishing papers in academic journals conduct independent research in a library practice smoothly incorporating paraphrases and summaries into own writing learn how to properly document sources and avoid plagiarism synthesize research into an academic paper with proper references
1.2.3 Paying attention to your tone
Tone in this context refers to the way of what you are going to say or what you have written. To put it simply, tone means how you are going to say what you want to say. It can tell your attitude towards your subject. Tone can be realized by your choice of words, grammatical structures, and even by the length of your sentences.
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1.2 Basic characteristics of Academic writing
Academic writing is difficult and painstaking. It takes study and practice to develop the skill. When you start your writing, you should be very clear about your purpose, audience, and tone.
Method
This course will be based on a process approach to academic writing. We will go through all the steps of the research paper writing process starting with the pre-writing stage (e.g. topic selection and narrowing), to individual skills needed for academic writing (e.g. paraphrasing, and summarizing), and finally to the actual mechanics of structuring the individual sections of a paper (e.g. writing abstracts). By the end of the course it is hoped that you will feel more confident about tackling the papers and assignments you will need to write for your dissertation abstract and for publishing papers in the leading journals of the world.
Academic writing would: focus on explaining, comparing and contrasting, evaluating, or analyzing concepts, theories, and summarizing research findings describe the original research a researcher has completed or is currently working on present previously unknown information for the first time
1.1 Definition of academic writing
a kind of writing for academic purposes a published report describing some original research a researcher has done or has in progress a formal, of certain length, and well-documented paper, which explores, discusses, or analyzes a certain factual or theoretical question a published paper which can mean anything that appears in a journal with international circulation of hundreds of thousands of copies each issue.
1.2.2 Considering your audience
One of the most important things to consider, whenever you start writing, is your audience, the people who will reaowing your intended audience will help you reach your goal of communicating clearly and effectively. In academic writing for scientific purposes, your audience is primarily scientists or professors.
The purpose of a piece of writing will determine the rhetorical form (organizational form and style) chosen for it Different types of writing will adopt different organizational form. An article that tries to inform readers that high technology will bring a lot of conveniences to human being has a different purpose from an article that explains how high technology has bad effects on human life.