Academic Writing Skills for BA Business Studies Foundation Course

This report outlines the structure and features of academic writing, including structure, objectivity, precision, and conciseness. It details how academic writing, especially in the context of a BA (Hons) Business Studies with Foundation course, enhances learning. The report emphasizes the importance of clear structure, grammatical accuracy, and avoiding personal bias in academic work. A personal experience section highlights how applying these principles improved study habits, vocabulary, and overall understanding of course material. The conclusion reinforces the value of academic writing in reducing arguments, preventing repetition, and structuring content effectively for better comprehension. Desklib provides access to more solved assignments and study resources for students.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Features of academic writing......................................................................................................3
Personal Experience....................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic writing is the crucial art in the contexts of academics. It basically means the
writing which helps to deliver the ideas and information in terms of academics. This report will
outline the structure of the academic writing and features of academic writing like structured,
objectivity, precise, concise, balanced etc. Further it will also outline the personal experience of
BA (Hons) Business Studies with Foundation course and how this academic writing helps in
improving in learning of this course.
MAIN BODY
Features of academic writing
Structured: The structure of writing should be precise and clear. It must contain the
introduction, paragraphs and must be ends with a good and understandable conclusion. The
content written in all the parts must be related with each other. The academic writing should be
properly planned so it reduces the ambiguity while making the structure. By creating the
structure, it also creates and develops new ideas regarding every topic contained in that (Vo,
2019). The proper planned writing will lead the well and good final structure of writing. This
structure helps in revising the whole content at the end time. It should be made with the good and
new ideas so the reader must understand that easily. The students should have good skills of
making the structure which could be easy for them to study.
Objectivity: This the hardest feature of the academic writing. This helps in academic
writing by stating the main objective of the writing. It tells that what will happen rather than
making assumptions on that topics (Strobl and et.al., 2019). The introduction written must
contain the objective of the academic writing. This objective determines the conclusion in the
mind of readers. The academic writing should always be objective based as object is must while
writing something. This objective always be in passive voice instead using of active voice. The
writing must make use of the noun and phrases of noun (Windle, 2017). This is based on the
research instead of personal feelings. Pronouns like 'I', 'You' etc should be avoided. For
determine the subject we can use topic as a subject. The writer must focus on the objective of the
academic writing instead of arguments.

Grammatical complexity: This is the most important feature of academic writing. The
writing should be less complex as should be understand by the students. The grammatical
mistakes lead to creates the sentences more complex and hard to understand. The writer should
have good vocabulary for making good structured of the academic writing. The writer must not
use the complex words which are not so familiar because it makes the structured complex. In this
writing, the written structure is more complex than words spoken (KHIRI, 2019). The
grammatical mistakes make the structure unusable as it contains lots of mistakes for the reader.
There should not be repetition of the words or sentences in the content. If the writer is confused
about any word or phrase it can use dictionary or google to remove its confusion. The writer
must write it in a way that could be like he is explaining it to himself so it makes to write him
easily.
Precise and Concise: The precision is basically related to the formality. There are many
words having different meaning with the different sentences. While doing the academic writing
the writer must use the correct words with makes the correct meaning of that sentences. The
words used while writing should be less complex which the reader could understand it easily. On
the other hand, the academic writing should also be concise because sometimes writer has to
write within the word limit given. The conciseness helps to avoid the repetition of the data which
is already written above. The writer can also make the writing concise by not using hard or
complex words rather than he must use the everyday speaking words which makes the reader
understand the writing easily. The writer must use the alternative words which makes the data
attractive for the reader. If the reader could not understand something than the writer can edit the
writing which can be understandable by the reader.
Personal Experience
As I started the BA (Hons) Business Studies with Foundation course the academic
writing helps me to improve myself in studies. By preparing the academic writing it makes me to
revise the matter of my studies very quickly. I used to make proper structure of the academic
writing by adding introduction of every topic, paragraphs which makes my writing more
valuable and ends with conclusion which tells about the summary of whole content of writing.
The main object of academic writing is to make the data understandable by the reader. In this I
used to avoid the words related to personal feelings. The writing makes my vocabulary good and
its also reduces my grammatical mistakes which also improves my English. The matter I prepare

in writing is properly structured. The also helps me to evaluate that the writing should be more
precise and concise only by writing the key points of the matter and non-repetition of the words
and sentences. As this course is very vast so it helps me to make the notes precisely. I also use
alternate words having the same meaning which increases my vocabulary and I use to avoid the
words which are not so familiar. I also avoid using those words which makes me confuse while
reading that matter. By preparing this academic writing it makes my mind getting new ideas and
solutions for my every confusion (Nasution, 2018). I make the use of noun and noun phrases
instead of using adverbs or verbs. After doing academic writing I used to check it again and edit
if any changes required in that writing.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it is concluded that the academic writing is very helpful in the
studies for the students. It is the important to make academic writing as it reduces the arguments
and non-repetition of the words while writing the matter. This report also concludes the various
features of the academic writing like objective of preparing report, report made should be precise
and concise and must be properly structured with the introduction, different paragraphs and
conclusion. This also contains the personal experience of the student doing BA (Hons) Business
Studies with Foundation course that how academic writing improves its studies.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Vo, S., 2019. Use of lexical features in non-native academic writing. Journal of Second
Language Writing. 44. pp.1-12.
Strobl, C. and et.al., 2019. Digital support for academic writing: A review of technologies and
pedagogies. Computers & Education. 131. pp.33-48.
Windle, J., 2017. Hidden features in global knowledge production:(re) positioning theory and
practice in academic writing. Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada. 17. pp.355-
378.
KHIRI, M. J. B. A., 2019. Implementation of Guided Group Academic Writing Using Online
Learning Tools. Trends in Undergraduate Research. 2(2). pp.f1-8.
Nasution, D. K., 2018. Corpus Based-Approach in Enhancing Students’ Academic Writing Skill:
Its Efficacy and Students’ Perspectives. International Journal. 6(2). pp.210-217.