Skills for the Social Sciences

Skills for the Social
Sciences
(Marketing across Cultures Project - CW1)

Table of Contents
Part 1 – Section 1.............................................................................................................................1
Key academic writing styles and their importance.................................................................1
Part 2 – Section 2.............................................................................................................................2
Interpretative (Qualitative) Articles.................................................................................................2
Article one:.............................................................................................................................2
Article two :............................................................................................................................2
Article three:...........................................................................................................................2
Quantitative Articles .......................................................................................................................3
Article one..............................................................................................................................3
Article two: ............................................................................................................................3
Article three:...........................................................................................................................3
Section 3 – Discussion – The contribution of research to topic i.e. “The importance of policing
and criminal investigation”..............................................................................................................4
Section 4 – Conclusion....................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

Part 1 – Section 1
Key academic writing styles and their importance
Academic writing can be defined as written material that is focussed, clear, structured,
backed up, concise and consists with evidences. I have analysed that, academic writing consists
with a particular purpose, which is to make readers understood with information that a sender is
willing to communicate. Including this, it can be said by me is that academic writing consists
with a proper style including a proper formal tone, but the words that are using stays simple in
nature (Belcher, 2019).
Mainly, there are four types of academic writing styles that are present and these are
given underneath:
Descriptive: In my own knowledge, this is being considered as one of the simplest form
of academic writing, which stays descriptive in nature. Here, for understating this I can
particularly take a good example, where summary of an article is to report the overall results of a
particular experiment. Including this, it is said that for a purely descriptive assignment, which is
going to be enclosed with records, identify, summary, report, and define.
Analytical: If it is talked about analytical writing, then it mainly stays enclosed with
descriptive writing. Along with this, I have also analysed that this is said to be a crucial writing,
where both information and facts are effectively re-organised. This also stays enclosed with
different range of parts, categories, types or relationships, groups and so on.
Persuasive: This is a type of academic writing, which analysed that it is one step above
than the analytical writing, which means this type of writing stays enclosed with number of
features that an analytical writing carries.
Critical: This sort of writing style is mostly done within the postgraduate courses,
research, and for considering the advanced writing (Wagener, 2018). I have found that, critical
writing stays enclosed with most of persuasive writing's features.
Importance of academic writing:
In my knowledge, significance of academic writing, is to communicate the information
(sender to receiver) in a formal way. For understanding this, I have taken a good example of a
student where it is the responsibility of him to learn how best to write in a way which will
convince the marker.
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