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Jun.30,2008Academic writing is a special kind of writing for college and university work. It is intended for a specific audience (primarily your instructors and professors). Academic writing is formal in tone.
The purpose of academic writing is usually to explain or to persuade. The purpose of a piece of writing will determine its rhetorical form. Prewriting activities are useful for narrowing a topic and generating ideas.
Three useful brainstorming techniques are:
– listing,
– free writing,
– and clustering.
Plan your writing by preparing an outline. Revision is an essential part of the writing process.Your first effort is called the rough draft. After revising it for content and organization (using the Peer Editing Checklists at the ends of most chapters), write your second draft.
Proofread your second draft for sentence structure, grammar, mechanics, and vocabulary, and then write a final copy to hand in.
Every good paragraph has coherence. Coherence is achieved by
– Repeating key nouns frequently.
– Using pronouns consistently.
– Using transition signals to show the relationship of one to idea to the next.
– Stating your ideas in some kind of logical order.
Transition signals can be transition phrase, conjunctions adverbs, coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, prepositions, adjectives, or nouns. Each type of transition signal is punctuated differently.
Some common kinds of logical order in English are chronological order, logical division of ideas, and comparison/contrast. You can achieve coherence in writing by stating your ideas in logical order. There are several kinds of logical order: chronological order, logical division of ideas/order of importance, and comparison/contrast.
Each kind of logical order has special words and expressions, or transition signals. that will support your logic
Use concrete supporting details for prove your points.
Do not use opinions for support.
Use examples, extended examples, or statistics as support.
In academic writing, you are expected you use information from outside sources to support your ideas. When include in an academic paper information from a book, newspaper, magazine, encyclopedia, dictionary, or nonprint sources such as television programs, CD-ROMs, or the Internet,
use any of the following methods:
• Direct quotations: Repeat the author’s or speaker’s exact word, and place them within quotation marks.
• Indirect quotations: Report the author’s words, making changes in pronouns and verb tenses as necessary. Do not use quotation marks.
• Paraphrase: Rewrite the author’s meaning in your own words. Include all, or almost all, of the ideas that are in the original. Change the sentence structure and substitute synonyms where possible to avoid plagiarizing.
• Summary: Condense a writer’s words and summarize the main ideas in a few of your own words as possible.
Document your sources to avoid plagiarizing and to help your reader find the sources of your information.
– Use in-text citations.
– Prepare an alphabetical list of works cited.
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Dear my beloved lecturer
Mrs Tiur
i’m really interesting in reading your story about a mother who wants to sacrifice her life for her son.It gives me such an inspiration in entering my life.I think the story is very good to be read,not only for the children,but also for all the parents,so they can remember the essence of their life.Related with your posting about academic writing,several days ago i read about the rules and kind of debate competition,but today i couldn’t find it in your blog.I only find about the rules and suggestions about academic writing itself.In my opinion,i think your blog contain really good matterial,but i didn’t find any profile about yourself Mam,so i believe that you should also tell about yourself further as the owner of this blog.i think that’s all i can say .Thank you very much for your attention.
sincerely yours,
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Haii
Thanks for dropping by in my blog. Hmm sound strange dear, because the article of debate is still there. Just click previous article at the left bottom of this page. I hope you will find it. Have nice study, Our final exam is around the corner now.
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Dear,
It’s a good blog for us. It is contain an important things to make a good paragraph
But, I suggest in this blog better contain important aspect.
First, in every explain such as brainstorming, coherence, direct quotations, etc must contain an example. So, the reader will get more informations
Second, in this blog I hope there’s a change in the arrange of this blog, it will be better if this blog learn how to writing step by step.
Third, I hope there will a blog which is explain about the method to wake up our mind in writing, because I have a friend who have problem to get an idea to make a paragraph. So we will get more creativities to make not only a good, but also interesting paragraph and the reader doesn’t bored when read it.
I thing that’s all about my comment about this blog.
I’m not a good writer, until now I’m trying to improving my skill.
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Dear mam
Actually in academic writing i still confused about how to make the conluding sentence.Could you explain to us specificly mam,because in my book the explanation is very hard to understand.Are the concluding sentence must be same with the first sentence in the paragraph?.Second question,are the main idea of the paragraph always put in the first sentence of paragraph? As i learned before in senior high school,the main idea not always in the first sentence. is it right?
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About Ayurveda
Ayurveda is a holistic healing science which comprises of two words, Ayu and Veda. Ayu means life and Veda means knowledge or science. So the literal meaning of the word Ayurveda is the science of life. Ayurveda is a science dealing not only with treatment of some diseases but is a complete way of life.
Ayurveda aims at making a happy, healthy and peaceful society. The two most important aims of Ayurveda are:
+ To maintain the health of an healthy people
+ To cure the diseases of sick people
Ayurveda is a medical science practiced in India since time immemorial and is generally known today as the Indian System of Medicine. The way Allopathic or Western medicine is practiced all over the world today. Similarly Ayurveda was practiced and recognized not only in India, but also in other Eastern countries. Ayurveda is a well – developed and completely refined medical science of antiquity and it will not be an exaggeration to call it the ‘Science of Life’.
Ayurveda deals with subjects like treatment of diseases (Roga – chikitsa), diet & behavioral regimen (Ahara – vihara), daily regimen (Dinacharya). Seasonal regimen (Ritucharya) and such. In a nut shell, it contains the complete knowledge of physical as well as mental diseases, methods of treatment and prevention of diseases, and equally important, methods of protection and preservation of general health.
‘Swasthasya swasthya rakshanam aturasya vikara prashamanam’
This concept of giving as much importance to ‘maintenance’ of health than treatment has earned a place even in WHO (World Health Organization) as the ‘only’ appropriate definition of health amongst all medical sciences.
Health is the supreme foundation of virtue, wealth, enjoyment and salvation. So when fighting against diseases and premature death, man has drug as weapon. In the search of these drugs and preparing them in a variety way to suit the varied needs and tasted of man under varied circumstances there grew up the science of pharmacy and chemistry. It is firm belief of scholars of Ayurveda that human being is a part parcel of nature. Whatever material which constitutes the physical nature also contributes to the composition of human being.
Dravya Guna is a special and independent branch of Ayurveda which keeps its importance and existence separately. It deals with numerous drugs along with their wide range of therapeutic uses. The importance of this branch in today’s globalising world is existing due to endurable effect and relatively safety.
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Why Ayurveda ?
For centuries together, Ayurveda has served a million of people by offering the complete medical therapy for a vast amount of acute as well as chronic diseases. Ayurveda, though neglected in the present scenario, has served as the origin of many minor alternative-healing therapies such as massage, Marma therapy, naturotherapy and many others.
Also, Ayurveda is the pioneer of the art of surgery, which has advanced at present as the curative therapy by using the most complex techniques. More than treating the diseases, Ayurveda firmly puts forward the theory to maintain health. For this purpose, Ayurveda has described in detail the daily regimen as well as seasonal regimen and ethical regimen.
For curing the diseases, Ayurveda insists on trapping the further development of disease right at its base, treating and eradicating the root cause of the ailment instead of satisfying the patient with symptomatic relief.
The thousands of simple prescriptions hidden and scattered throughout the ancient Ayurvedic Scriptures, still serve as home remedies for most of the common health problems even in the present times, irrespective of the vast change and increasing complexity in the life style of the people.
Ayurveda offers some excellent para surgical therapies, which serve the dual purpose of eradicating the chronic disease as well as avoiding the complex surgical procedures, such as KsharaKarma (Alkali Therapy), Agni Karma (Cauterization) and the procedures included in the Panchakarma therapy.
In contrary to the popular misbelief, Ayurveda is not a mere alternative therapy but a way of life, which, if followed religiously, can help one to attain a better physical, emotional, social and Spiritual life through which one can attain:
+ Dharma (One’s duty towards one’s own self and society)
+ Artha (Knowledge of all things and earning the required money)
+ Kama (Fulfilment of all the worldly desires)
+ Moksha (Salvation)
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Thanks May,
they re lovely to read.
Keep in touch
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