Developing Academic Communication Skills: Features and Elements

This report provides an overview of academic writing, highlighting its differences from other forms of writing and emphasizing its formal and unbiased nature. It delves into the purpose and features of academic writing, including persuasive, analytical, and informative aspects, as well as formality, objectivity, hedging, structure, and accuracy. The report also identifies key elements such as unity, tone, clear organization, and citations. Furthermore, it addresses key vocabulary issues and different types of abbreviations, such as clipping words and blends. The conclusion reinforces the importance of clarity and straightforwardness in academic writing. This resource is available on Desklib, where students can find a variety of solved assignments and study materials.

Developing Academic
Communication Skills

INTRODUCTION
Academic writing is a formal writing that used to write in university or publication of formal
information, or in the office (Huisman and et.al., 2018).
 Clear and precise in nature it focused on structured of the writing and written from a well
sourced.
 This report concludes the information about the academic and other writing and their features,
key elements.
 Academic writing include the formal and unbiased writing.

The differences between academic and other
writing
Academic writing
 Academic writing used in research and in formal writing which present in a conference
or university, essays etc.
 Academic writing uses concise language to present their research (Lee and
Canagarajah, 2019).
Other writing
 General writing used in informal writing. Like, letters, emails, newspaper diary etc.
 general writing uses semi-formal or informal language in their research.

Purpose and features of academic writing
Some common purpose of academic writing is persuasive, analyse the data or report, and
inform.
 Persuasive:- in academic writing the purpose of the writing is to get the readers exact
answer to their question in exact accuracy(Chapman, 2017).
 Analytical:- in academic writing their purpose is to evaluate the research properly that
reader easily understand the answer to their question.
 Informative:- in academic writing their informative purpose is to give reader new
information or analytical concept about the topic or research.

Cont.….
 Formality:- in academic writing the abbreviation and phrasal type of words should not be
considered (Ansarifar, Shahriari and Pishghadam, 2018).
 Objectivity:- in academic writing the main objective is to write the exact information about
the subject and not write the assumptions that individual assumes to be.
 Hedging:- in academic writing hedging is one of the critical feature. In academic writing
individual should have form a decision towards the subject or research they are going to do.
 Structure:- academic writing needs a necessitates precise structure.
 Accuracy:- in academic writing vocabulary is the essential requirement.

Key elements of academic writing
Academic writing is way different from the general writing.
 Unity:- the academic writing is formal and logical in nature. The research presented in the
report must be in form of unify and singular idea.
 Tone:- academic writing tone should be in professional and related to the research
objective.
 Clear organization:- academic writing sometime became complex and hard to understand.
 Citations:- citation considered as the source from where the data or writing written in
academic.

Key vocabulary issues and types of abbreviations
Key vocabulary
 Key vocabulary issue is that written form of word is differ from the spoken language.
 Number of words that individual should learn are exceedingly large.
 Source of information are limited.
Types of abbreviations
 Clipping word:- it is characteristics of word which shorten the word by eliminate the
lexical part. For e.g., doc from doctor.
 Blends:- it is a combination of two words that mix for shorten the sentence. For e.g.,
cyborg from cybernetic (Ebadi and Rahimi, 2019).

CONCLUSION
 Academic writing uses straightforward and clarify report which consist the
importance and clarity statement about the research done.
 The presentation present a feature of academic writing and type of abbreviation
issue of vocabulary that faces while writing academic.

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