ASS065-1 Skills for the Social Sciences

RUNNING HEAD: Health and social care management
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Health and social care management

Health and social care management 1
Contents
Part- 1...................................................................................................................................................2
Part- 2...................................................................................................................................................4
References..........................................................................................................................................8

Health and social care management 2
Part- 1
The purpose of academic writing is to communicate. It refers to a style of expression
which is used by the researchers to define knowledgeable boundaries of their
disciplines and the precise areas of the expertise. The characteristics which I
conquered by academic writing are formal tone, a clear focus on the research, use of
3rd party than the 1st person perception along with the precise word choice. The
scholarly experts make use of specific languages in the professions such as law or
medicine in order to convey agreed meaning about the complex ideas or concepts. It
is believed that in order to communicate effectively it is significant to understand the
audience and the way they like to attain information. The types of the academic
writing style learned by me are given below:
Descriptive: It is the simplest form of academic writing which I have learned in the
semester. The main purpose of academic writing is to provide facts or information.
For instance, the summary of an article or an article of the results of an experiment.
The instructions for a purely descriptive assignment comprises identify, report,
record, summarise and define.
Analytical: It is believed that analytical writing includes descriptive writing. The facts
and the information are reorganized to describe into categories, types, parts, groups
or relationships. The analytical writing includes instructions like analyze, compare,
contrast, relate and examine. Most of the academic writing is analytical.
Persuasive: The persuasive writing contains all the features of the analytical writing
along with the additional point of view. As per my opinion, persuasive writing
includes an argument, recommendation, analysis of findings and the valuation of the
work done by others. Here the claims made needs to be supported by some proof
like a reference to research outcomes or available sources.
Critical: I have experienced that critical writing is common for the purpose of
research, postgraduate and advanced undergraduate writing. It contains all the
features of persuasive writing. But it adds a point of view of the two persons in order
to include my own (Hyland, 2014).