Skills Development for Higher Education: An Academic Writing Report

This report explores the essential academic writing skills required for success in higher education. It highlights key features of effective academic writing, including structure, evidence, precision, and critical analysis. The report emphasizes the importance of a clear and logical structure, the need for evidence-based arguments, the use of precise language, and the ability to critically evaluate information. It also includes a personal reflection on the author's journey in developing these skills, noting improvements made through coursework and practical application. The report concludes that mastering academic writing is crucial for enhancing learning and capabilities in higher education. Desklib provides a platform to explore similar documents and solved assignments.

Skills for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
Books and Journal........................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Academic writing refers to the style of writing that has been used by scholarly publications and
universities (Hamam, and Hysaj, 2021). Academic writing helps to enhance the skills and
capability that are required to write books journals articles that are related to the academic
courses and scholarly publications. In order to become an effective academic writer at an
individual is required to take care of several features in the writing. In order to develop the skills
and capabilities for the higher education that is essential for an individual to develop academic
writing skills. This report is going to contain study skills that are required for higher education
and various features that are essential to have an effective academic writing. It further contains
the personal experience that I have get from the learning and the ways that improve my academic
writing.
MAIN BODY
There are several features that should we present in academic writing among which four of them
are explained below:
Structure.
Writing requires to be completed in a proper structure that should be clear enough and derive
from the genre of the writing (Atkinson, 2021). Taking an example of the structure such that report
should contain an introduction which contains the aims and objectives of the report. Further,
report contains main body in which all the required data of the report has been included. This
helps a report to be attractive enough and with the proper logical progression so that the writing
can be coherent in nature. All the parts of writing that are different in nature should be clearly
connected in a well-structured manner so that the project themes final completed and when is
structured with logical progression of ideas.
Evidenced.
In order to provide effective writing in the academic writing it is essential for an article to be
supported with evidence no matter what opinions and arguments are contain in academic writing
(Susilo, Mufanti, and Fitriani, 2021). The information that has been used in the writing should be
provided by some experts in the field and it is very essential to reference the information

properly. To take an example of giving evidence in the writing the evidence can be given with
the help of in text citation and reference sources. Evidence provided in the academic writing
helps to give credit to the writers that has been research a lot to write the work in their
publications. It is essential to provide added to the writers and experts and mention the source
from which the information has been collected to make the report authentic in nature.
Precise.
In order to make an academic writing attractive it is essential to use information that is clear and
precise in nature (Zhu, 2021). The language that has been used in the academic writing should be
precise to ensure that the readers can be able to understand its meaning. The vocabulary that will
be used in the academic writing should be technical in nature which conveys the meaning more
precisely and in a similar manner and if such technical vocabulary is required to be defined then
it should be defined in the same manner in the report. Precise information given in the writing
not only makes the report to be faithful but also helps the writer to provide attractive report in the
academic writing. There are many times in which technical terms requires defining because it
contains different meaning in different languages that is required to be readily understood by the
reader. In such a case the writer is required to clear the precise meaning of the technical term in
the writing.
Critical
It is not essential that academic writing is just descriptive. Academic writing is more than
descriptive writing because a writer is required to accept each and every fact that is required to
be known to the reader. In order to write an effective academic writing a writer is required to
analyse and evaluate the data in effective manner so that others or the readers can be able to
make effective judgements about the same (Chung, and Ahn, 2021). Before providing the
academic writing it is essential for the writer to check whether the writing is integrated in the
own writing or not which is considered in the critical writing. To write critically a writer is
required to deal with the great research on the topic on which the report has been developed so
that the deep understanding can be provided in the report which can make the report truly
critical.

Personal experience:
When I have taken admission in the course I have less experience with the academic writing and
I have developed a lot of my skills and capabilities in order to enhance and improve my
academic writing (SANJAYA, 2021). I was not aware about the basic features that are required in
an effective academic writing and with the help of joining this course I have improve the several
features and my writing through which I can be able to write well in the academic writing. In my
first project I have made several mistakes that are related to the structure and evidence that are
required to complete the project. Now I am able to complete my project and writings in effective
manner (Lindenman, and Rosinski, 2020).
CONCLUSION
The above discussion help you conclude that academic writing is very essential for an individual
in order to enhance their learning in writing and capabilities in higher education. Enrollment in
the course help me to learn affective skills and features that are required to improve the skills
that are required in the enhancement of project and academic writing that are essential for higher
education.

REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Hamam, D. and Hysaj, A., 2021, July. Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK):
Higher Education Teachers’ Perspectives on the Use of TPACK in Online Academic Writing
Classes. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 51-58). Springer,
Cham.
Atkinson, D., 2021. Ethnographies of academic writing research: A story in five scenes. Ethnographies of
Academic Writing Research: Theory, methods, and interpretation, 1, p.145.
Zhu, Z., Li, B., Xu, Y., & Rudzicz, F. (2021). What do writing features tell us about AI papers?. arXiv
preprint arXiv:2107.06310.
Chung, E.S. and Ahn, S., 2021. The effect of using machine translation on linguistic features in L2 writing
across proficiency levels and text genres. Computer Assisted Language Learning, pp.1-26.
SANJAYA, N.I., 2021. STUDENTS’PARAPHRASING SKILLS IN ACADEMIC WRITING: A CASE STUDY
AT ENGLISH LITERATURE DEPARTEMENT OF MUSLIM UNIVERSITY OF
INDONESIA (Doctoral dissertation, Universitas Hasanuddin).
Lindenman, H. and Rosinski, P., 2020. Writing Outside of Class: The Untapped Potential of Students'
Non-Academic Writing. WPA: Writing Program Administration-Journal of the Council of Writing
Program Administrators, 44(1).
Susilo, A., Mufanti, R. and Fitriani, A., 2021. Promoting EFL students’ critical thinking and self-voicing
through CIRC technique in Academic Writing courses. Studies in English Language and
Education, 8(3), pp.917-934.