ACADEMIC WRITING

Name : Tiara Maharani Class : 4C NIM : 2223210043 Reading As Part of Writing A. Approaching Reading        With academic reading, it is necessary to maintain a constant grip on what the author is saying. Yet, many academic texts are densely written in unfamiliar ways which makes them much more difficult to manage than, for example, a novel or a magazine article. Although sometimes there may be reasons why you need to skim-read an article or book, this is likely to be only to get the general gist of what is being said, as a strategy for deciding whether it is appropriate reading material or not. In general, skim-reading is not a useful strategy for reading as a student, but you may well be used to doing this in other contexts, for example, skimming through a newspaper article, or skipping through a novel, not bothering much about learning or pronouncing the names of characters or places and paying little attention to some of the more complicated parts of the plo...

  Name : Tiara Maharani Class : 4C NIM : 2223210043 This is my reflection on the 1st meeting in Academic Writing last night. Whatever comes to your mind about academic writing? In my opinion, Academic writing is a formal style of writing used in universities and scholarly publications. You will encounter it in journal articles and books on academic topics and be expected to write your essays , research papers , and dissertation in academic style. What is the difference between academic writing and other literature in English? The main difference between academic and literary writing is that academic writing is more formal, while literary writing can be more creative and expressive. While there are some exceptions, academic writing generally uses a third-person point of view and avoids personal pronouns like I or we. Writing is a recursive process because when we write something, we can't produce perfect writing if we only try it once. We have to write over and over again...