Academic Writing Skills for Higher Education: Features and Personal Experience

Study Skills for Higher
Education
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Table of Contents
Introduction .....................................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................3
References ......................................................................................................................................4

Introduction
Skills is defined as the ability of an individual which allows him to achieve desired goals
and objectives and also helps in motivating him to perform better and effective. Enhancing skills
during higher education allows the individual to improve their confidence, competence as well as
self-esteem (Singh and Singh, 2019). Good study skills helps in enhance the ability to learn and
retain their knowledge. There are are number of skills that can be enhanced by the individual to
perform better in their academic career. One of the most essential is academic writing skills , this
helps individual to perform better in their academic career. This report highlights the detailed
description of academic writing skills for the individual. Also the features of academic writing is
also highlighted in this report along with the personal experience of the learning done during the
course.
Main Body
Discuss four of the features of academic writing also discuss why they are important
Academic writing is defined as clear, specific, concise, focused and structured including
facts and figures. The purpose of the academic writing is to offer clear and precise understanding
to the readers (Dumford and Miller, 2018). It generally written in formal tone and style, but not
in a complex manner also including long sentences. The effective academic writing skills allows
the student to effectively communicate their ideas, information to vast academic community in
writing form. Effective academic writing helps the students to express their ideas using formal
tone and style leading to enhance their academic performance and achieve desired career goals. It
is one of the essential skills considered for the students to perform better in their career and
academic path. There are various features of the academic writing as mentioned below:
Features of academic writing
Some of the features of the academic writing are mentioned below:
Structured: One of the most essential feature of the academic writing is that it has clear
structure. The structure of the writing is often derived from the genre of writing such as a report
follows a proper structure starting with introduction including the aim, then the main section or
the discussion part and so on (Er, 2018). But whereas the essay follows structure like
introduction, clear and precise paragraph and then the conclusion. Clear planning and setting
proper structure will helps the students to effectively write their report with clear focus including
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