Features and Importance of Academic Writing - Individual Essay

Assessment 1
Individual Essay
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Table of content
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Explain features of academic writing along with its importance................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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Introduction
Academic writing is basically referred as a formal style of writing. Formal writing is
quite important in terms of universities and scholarly publications. Academic writing revolves in
accordance with journal articles as well as various books on academic topics. The academic
writing is quite helpful in writing the essays, dissertations, research papers in a formal and
appropriate style. Academic writing basically has a similar writing process like other text
formats but it has various specifications in context of content, structure and style as well. An
ideal academic writing is formal as well as unbiased rather than a personal writing. The academic
writing needs to clear and precise and must not be long winded. The ideal academic writing is
the one which is focussed, well structures, well sources and has correct and comprise information
(Altınmakas and Bayyurt, 2019).
Main Body
Explain features of academic writing along with its importance
The way in which a person writes is basically influenced by the motive or purpose of the person.
It is considered that the way of writing differs in accordance with the communication and its
purpose along with the person to whom the message is being communicated. Academic writing
has its characteristics as well as significance. The various significance and features have been
discussed below (Huisman and et.al., 2018).
Characteristics of academic Writing
The features of academic writing have been discussed below.
 Structured- The concept of academic states that academic writing must have a clear and
definite structure. The structure basically helps in deriving genre of writing to the
individual. For an instance, a report is required to have a proper sequence of the
introduction, main body or the method section, discussion section and various others
including a conclusion as well. In context of essay, it will have an introduction that
includes the statement of thesis , the clear body paragraphs along with topic sentences as
well as a conclusion. The writing must be in a coherent manner which has a logical
progression along with being cohesive. It must make sure that different parts of writing
must have a clear format and they must be clearly connected. It is ascertained that there
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