Essays on Academic Writing

Response to Jaqueline Guzman:

I agree with Jaqueline that academic writing is frequently dreadful because of the plagiarism. All of us know that plagiarism is bad as means cheating and stealing ideas from other people and violates the intellectual property rights; as Dolak writes, “Academic freedom is a fundamental right. But within that right is the ethical issue of academic integrity” (Dolak, 2003, p. 1). However, the students hear about the dreads of plagiarism and its consequences so often that for the most sensitive of them, writing process becomes really terrible. Indeed, we cannot avoid writing, but always thinking about the possibility of ...

Question:

When it comes to academic writing what are some of the key challenges that this style or writing presents? How is professional/academic writing different from writing in the work place or technical writing? Scan the library, preferably “JSTOR,” for examples of the above on “Gun Control” topics and explain.

Answer:

One of the key challenges of academic writing is being able to communicate the message as effectively as possible. In academic writing, it is a challenge to craft the words and the structure of a writing work so that it can be understood by a particular set of audience (Fonseca, ...

Judith Butler wrote the article “The Values of Difficulty” as a response to the article “Language Crimes: A Lesson in How Not to Write, Courtesy of the Professoriate” written by Denis Dutton. Butler defends her position in her essay and states that academic writers need to use complex terminology in order to express themselves and to shape the meaning in the right way. She believes that there is a connection between the language and the meaning and that a term could be misunderstood if simple language would be used. I agree with Judith Butler because she proves her point ...

The essay is about importance and necessities that ensure adequate education; it covers more than the teacher-student formal relationship in class. The lecturing of at most one hour which is the only time a learner interacts with a tutor is certainly not enough for effective learning. It is important to build a rapport between teacher and student where the two have to meet at the more personal level during office hours or extensions if need be to establish the needs of the student who is the focus in a learning environment. Some students for instance in colleges and universities ...

On Academic Writing for Mechanical Engineers

For a Mechanical Engineering major, writing can be different and more complicated compared to general writing since succinct writing is always emphasized, if not encouraged. There are, of course, different writing styles and guidelines for academic writing in general and Mechanical Engineering specifically. For current purposes, APA and MLA are focused on in order to. This presentation aims, accordingly, to explain away guidelines mechanical engineers need to be familiar with for essay writing based on extensive research and face-to-face interviews with Kahtan Awni and Aklhlko Kumaga, Professors of Mechanical Engineering and a Mechnical Engineering graduate student. First, in an ...

The ability to write academic papers using the right voice is a vital skill that students acquire after a long during the course of their studies considering that academic writing can pose to be challenging endeavour that requires students to understand that it may take time for them to master. Academic writing can be referred to as the formal type of writing used by scholars for assessed work as it expresses knowledge, and in terms of assessment, interaction, and comprehension of the topic. Learning to write correctly in academic writing requires that an individual reads plenty of journals articles ...

INDIA’S CLASSIC AGE

Part One The first resource I will use from the Alexander College Writing and Learning Center is the Academic Writing Help resource. This resource is a vital tool for any student who desires to write a good academic essay be it augmentative, expository, analytical or a compare and contrast essays. In particular, the resource will be beneficial to those like me who are curious to learn how to write a thesis statement that is captivating, precise and relevant. Since we will be required to do a research on an essay topic that is argumentative, it is imperative that I ...

Question 1: reasons why references are used for technical or academic writing

In technical and academic writing, referencing may be applied to ensure that previous information on a certain subject is acknowledged. The writer, in this case, is able to indicate that indeed he or she has researched related literature concerning the topic at hand and provides information on what has been achieved in the topic of concern. Consequently, once the previous literature has been acknowledged, the writer is able to table his or her position based on the previous information thereby providing a basis for the argument or claim they intend to make. Thirdly, referencing is done to ensure that ...

Introduction

The main idea of a research proposal is identification of important social issues, for which an additional research is needed to clarify them, and, in some cases, to justify the need of sponsorship and to describe the main ideas of an investigation. Among the most important of this academic and sometimes business activity are succinct, yet informative abstract and introduction with an absorbing narrative hook. This paper discusses the main elements of these components of a research proposal, as well as it speculates about irrelevance of rhetorical questions in academic and business research.

Writing a Good Abstract

In the abstract section of a ...

Education and Healthy lifestyle are the shaking pillars of the American Dream

The American dream is no a destination, but a journey – to paraphrase a famous saying. Insanely quick development and emancipation of society has led to change of the game. Today it is not enough to be either smart or beautiful; in order to get ahead of others in modern the world, one needs to be both. Higher education has always been an index of success. Just as a body image becoming nowadays. People aim to take care of their brains just as much as they take care about their bodies. Especially the latter has been elevated to the rank ...

Introduction

The development of social media has affected social interactions and studies to a great extent. For instance, the advancement of technology has enabled students to use their mobile gadgets like computers, mobile phones, and tablets in numerous ways to communicate. It is possible for individuals to use the gadgets to access the social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for communication purposes. Clearly, social media has both positive and negative effects towards student’s interactions and work ethics in institutions of learning. An article by Emma Reves (2015) depicted that one in four people consumes more time in ...

Since the paper format was in MLA, and I had used APA referencing style, I had to change the first sentence on page one of the article. MLA uses the author and the page number (if available in the incitation). Besides, I had used the word ‘adult” in its plural form while it should have been in the singular. I had also used a redundant word “people” in the second sentence. In line four, I had used the wrong capitalization, type 2 diabetes is a common noun, and therefore, there was no need for capitalization. Moreover, I had not ...

“Colonialism is a relationship between an indigenous (or forcibly imported) majority and a minority of foreign invaders. The fundamental decisions affecting the lives of the colonized people are made and implemented by the colonial rulers in pursuit of interests that are often defined in a distant metropolis. Rejecting cultural compromises with the colonized population, the colonizers are convinced of their own superiority and their ordained mandate to rule (Jurgen 16).” Apart from the economic and political incentives, race too played an important role in the colonization process. It was the feeling of superiority and the need to enforce it ...

“I think plagiarism is a major concern for this university and us as a staff member. I believe it is increasing –certainly there’s more of it around now than when I started here seven years ago, I do not know about the rest of you, but I am anxious about the responsibility of us to police the thing. My cohort has over 260 students, and I just have no that the time to check absolutely everything! Nor do I think that it is necessarily my job –I am an academic, not a police officer! I am worried about ...

The Methodology: Quantitative study

Data: Written IELTS test score and performance in English 101/ entry level English class based on percentage grade in the course, and performance in entry level class in the student’s degree area, based on percentage grade in the course. Why : I want to see if the performance band that a student scores in on the IELTS consistently correlates with their classroom performance, in order to determine whether or not it is an accurate predictor of student outcomes, or ability to meet the standards of performance in the classroom setting.

Data Collection: Questioners with closed answer questions regarding scores and level of performance.

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