Academic Writing Assignment: College to Workplace Writing Skills

This assignment explores the different types of public writing encountered after graduating and entering the workforce, including expository, persuasive, narrative, and descriptive styles. The solution also provides methods to improve academic writing, such as researching and reading various writing styles, paying attention to writing techniques, and practicing writing. The assignment emphasizes the importance of aligning writing with rhetorical modes and improving writing skills to produce high-quality academic papers. References to academic sources are included, and the solution addresses how to transform writing skills for academic success.

Running Head: ACADEMIC LEARNING
Academic Writing
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
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Question 1: Explain the types of public writing you will encounter once you graduate from
college and enter the world of work.
Answer: There are four main types of writing in the graduate level. They can be categorized
under the four following heads:
Expository: This writing style refers to the purpose of the author that is required to inform the
different subject matter to the different readers.
Persuasive: The writing style will refer the particular opinion of the writer that will attempt to
influence the reader while they study the given write up.
Narrative: This writing style refers to the matter in which the author will narrate a particular
story where the story can be a particular fact or a fiction of the main story background.
Descriptive: This writing style refers to that part of the story telling approach in which the writer
will use the five different senses in order to create the picture clearly in front of the reader. The
writing style also incorporates the different forms of imagery and the other specific details
incorporated for the given purpose.
The different essays, the specific business materials, the different fictions and the other
articles that will analyze the writing skills that will be focused on the reasons that will tap the
keyboard that will comprise of the four main type of writing styles that will be referred to the
different academic modes of the discourse framework of the different rhetorical modes. The
institutions of the higher learning experiences that will be aligned with the certain rhetorical
modes , that will be composed of the majority of the pieces that will be constituting one of the
four main purposes of producing a quality write up (Yang & Lin, 2019).

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Question 2: What are some methods you can use to help begin your transformation into an
academic writer?
The methods that can be used in the improvement of the writing is the sufficient research work
and the reading of the current articles, magazines and the other writing styles that will be
incorporated to raise the standards of the fellow writers. The writer should also pay attention to
the different writing tricks and the technique that will be incorporated in the reading style and
also one should take note of the usage of the different types of writing techniques.
The second aspect that will enhance the writing skills will be to practice the writing skills, the
better the writing will become. The academic papers will also be focused on the writing skills
that will try out the different tricks in the different pieces of the written report (Yim, &
Warschauer, 2017).

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References
Yang, Y., Cao, J., Lu, M., Li, J., & Lin, C. W. (2019). How to Write High-quality News on
Social Network? Predicting News Quality by Mining Writing Style. arXiv preprint
arXiv:1902.00750.
Yim, S., Wang, D., Olson, J., Vu, V., & Warschauer, M. (2017, February). Synchronous
Collaborative Writing in the Classroom: Undergraduates' Collaboration Practices and
their Impact on Writing Style, Quality, and Quantity. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 468-
479).