Features of Academic Writing: Importance and Personal Reflection

Academic Writing

Academic writing is the formal form of writing the is clear, structured, well informative,
focussed and evidence and citation based writing. The main purpose of the academic writing is to
aid the understanding of a reader (Wu, X., Mauranen, A. and Lei, L., 2020). Academic writing is
in the formal tone and style but is not difficult to understand as it does not have much long
sentences or complicated vocabulary. The present essay is the discussion of the features of the
academic writing and their importance. Further there is the personal reflection on what factors
are learned during the course that will improve academic writing.
The academic writing is the formal objective in which focus is placed over the quality of wiring,
arguments and information that has evidence rather than on a writer. Therefore in an academic
writing there are some features that essential to be considered while writing and academic
writing.
The foremost feature of the academic writing is the structure of the writing (Giltrow, J.,
Gooding, R. and Burgoyne, D., 2021). The academic writing contains a clear structure that is
derive form the genre of the writing topic such as it must have introduction, aims and objectives,
a method of research etc. this feature is important as its let the reader know what basically a
academic writing is about such as its rational, aims and objectives etc. The structured academic
writing helps a writer in the clear planning before writing the content as this will maintain the
flow of writing and also set clear, logical and coherent progression throughout the writing. This
is also significant for the academic writing because its keeps the writing of the writer connected
in an order which is easy for reader to understand (Budjalemba, A. and Listyani, L., 2020).
The second feature of academic writing is the evidenced this means that the opinions and
arguments written in the academic writing are the always supported by the evidence. The
importance of this feature is that this keeps the information written by experts protected by their
rights and also paper in not under the consideration of academic misconduct. Also if the reader
wants and in-depth knowledge of some in between topic the proper citation and referencing helps
in reading that article form which writer has referenced the information. When writing an
academic paper as an academic writing the evidence based academic writing is paid more value
and also the publishers and experts treat it as a more appropriate and ethical (Prinz, P. and