Study Skills for Higher Education: Characteristics of Academic Writing

This report discusses the characteristics of academic writing and its importance in higher education. It highlights the structured, balanced, evidence-based, and critical features of academic writing. The report also discusses the personal experience of the writer in improving their writing skills through an academic writing course.

Study Skills for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ..............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The term academic writing is explained as a formal structure which is backed up through
reliable sources and evidence. One of the main purpose related with academic writing is to aid
the readers understanding with use of formal tone and style. This is not complex and also not
require use of long sentences and complicated vocabulary to become familiar with course of
action (Alinasab, Gholami and Mohammadnia, 2021). In this report, some general characteristic
of the academic writing with their relevant disciplines will be highlighted. In the last, importance
of academic writing and personal experience related with course is discussed in the upcoming
report.
MAIN BODY
Academic writing perform an important role in the descriptive, persuasive, critical and analytical
report. Each of them work with their specific languages, purpose and methods so some of the
specific, features of academic writing are universal and they perform a crucial role among all
formats to support as well as guide individuals or students for write meaningful and logical ideas.
Structured feature perform an important role and this is used by the writers for complete all task
with a clear structure. In simple terms, structure part demonstrate that a report contain
introduction, aim, method, discussion and conclusion section. This is useful for students because
it helps to perform all work in a coherent and logical progression of ideas. Moreover, structure
feature of the report is essential as this aids students to ensure all final products in a well
connected approach. Planning is a structured form is essential for ensure that all of the final
written ideas are delivered in a logical manner so that they can focus on ideas which are relevant
and meaningful for the reader.
Balanced approach perform an important role and this helps students to write and deliver the
information with highlighting on all of it's side. In simple terms, balanced approach is utilised by
students to avoid and minimise the bias or partiality from report. As per the discuss ideas this is
identified that research perform an important role for gather information related with a particular
topic (Daurenbekova and Tusupbekova, 2020). So this is crucial for academic writer to
demonstrate its stance on the selected topic. Furthermore, balanced approach also perform a
crucial role because this helps to utilise all those words such as evidence related perspectives,

research-related information, suggest, cause, boost and many more are the phrases that clearly
indicates all the data in a informative manner.
Evidence feature is crucial for academic writing because this is used by the students or writers
for support the opinion and arguments. Writing is explained by the expert through demonstrating
all information that is based on their research. Moreover, this is also important for reference all
the data through proper source. It explain all the data which is collected based on information
that refer the use of accurate in-text citation and reference section for the report. Moreover, the
evidence perspectives perform an important role to explain the data with decided sections (Hey-
Cunningham, Ward and Miller, 2021). Data and information related with experts demonstrate all
evidence are useful to provide right values as well as ideas in a well-known manner.
Critical feature provide all information in a manner that simply understand and accept the things
as a fact. This governs that academic writing is more useful than just describe the data or
information and it helps to evaluate and analyse the information which is written by writer. All
the information that is explained helps to make accurate judgements about the given topic in the
academic writer form. Further, critical writing requires a large amount of research in order to
develop the enough or depth understanding of topic. All the perspectives that are critical also
stand at the crucial position and this is because it helps to transfer information with decided topic
in an organised and systematic manner. This is crucial for induce data in decided research
manner that helps to gain depth information about topic.
With start of the academic writing course this is identified that the decided data and information
of a topic is important to transfer in a right manner. This course aids to learn a lot of lessons to
improve overall writing skills whether, they are academic or regular writing perspectives.
Academic writing is different from the regular writing methods because this is totally depends on
formal perspectives and the writer avoid to use the informal words. With this lesson of academic
writing there is improvement in the language of written English and also my research skills are
developed and improved to identify accurate information with a topic. It helps in improving of
my professional knowledge related with the topic because gather data is accurate and appropriate
to utilise (Kao, 2021). Moreover, academic writing perform a central role among all over the
globe and this is because writing skills benefit the students to learn and obtain benefits in later
approaches. Academic writing features such as structure, critical, works as a communication tool
and it convey all information and knowledge with a specific field of study. The major learning

related with work style is improved because it support to understand and focus on all those
techniques which are important to convey data from one section to another. But with academic
writing this is easy for analyse and critical think about the work and their results before it's
completion (Vo, 2019). Example- Before the course of academic writing approach to written a
letter is to summarise what is done but after this student analyse all reading factors and come out
with those that are important as well as useful in future.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above report, this is concluded that academic writing perform an
important role to convey data in a formal approach. Evidence, Balanced, structured and many
more are important features of academic writing to analyse and understand all critical factors of
the reading factors in order to select those which are useful for learning and improving future
writing. Furthermore, report also conclude about the use of all those perspectives of academic
writing through which research is demonstrated in a informative manner.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Daurenbekova, T.I. and Tusupbekova, M.Z., 2020. Academic writing in teaching a foreign
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Hey-Cunningham, A.J., Ward, M.H. and Miller, E.J., 2021. Making the most of feedback for
academic writing development in postgraduate research: Pilot of a combined
programme for students and supervisors. Innovations in Education and Teaching
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Kao, V., 2021. Academic Writing and the Virtual Museum. Michigan Academician, 48(1),
pp.115-116.
Vo, S., 2019. Use of lexical features in non-native academic writing. Journal of Second
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Wahyuningsih, S., 2021. Engaging EFL Students in English Phrases of Academic Writing: How
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