Developing Academic Writing Skills: Features, Differences, and Rules

This essay explores academic writing, a formal style used in educational and professional contexts, contrasting it with informal writing styles found in letters, emails, and journals. Academic writing is characterized by complexity, formality, objectivity, and explicitness, and avoids slang and contractions, while emphasizing proper referencing and logical structure. The document highlights the differences in language use, engagement, and citation practices between academic and other forms of writing, explaining how academic writing relies on structured formats and objective language, whereas other forms are more flexible and personal. Abbreviation is defined as a shortened version of a longer word or phrase, and the essay references several academic sources to support its analysis of academic writing conventions.

Academic writing is the formal style of writing used in school,
universities and in publication.
DEVELOPING ACADEMIC
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Other forms of writing uses informal or semi-formal language.
Abbreviation is an shortened version of a longer word phrase.
Academic writing have number of features, which helps the
writer in several manner.

Academic writing or scholarly writing is non fiction part of
academic work and done by professionals in respective field.
Academic writing have number of features and characteristics,
which can be studied under head:
Complexity, formality, objectivity, explicitness, and many more.
Academic writing process
Abbreviation is an shortened
version of a longer word
phrase. It include group of
letters or word taken from
the full word.
Rules of Academic Writing

Basis Academic Writing Other Writing
Uses It is used in conference papers, research
projects, reports, abstracts, essays, etc.
Other forms of writing are used in letters,
newspapers, emails, articles, journal entries
and diary, etc.
Engage Academic writing generally does not
engage or use pronouns like “I” or “We”.
They are flexible when comes to use of
pronouns.
Language It uses formal language, objective, and
concise language.
Other forms of writing uses informal or semi-
formal language.
Rhyming Slang Does not use slang. Use slang.
Contraction/
Shrinkage
Do not do contractions. Do contraction
Referencing
and Citation
Academic writing always uses referencing
and citations.
Not usually do referencing and citation.
Others Academic writing is always in structured
format, information provided or presented
is logically from one section to next.
Different style of writing include various
structural format. It means that some time
style of creative writing, general writing or
others.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ACADEMIC WRITING
AND OTHER FORMS OF WRITING

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