Academic Writing
Academic writing is formal writing. It becomes primer necessery for universities students for academic activities. It is only done by Students of Universities, lecturer, profesional teacher not from the Students of Elementary School, group businessman, farmers, sailors, and the other occupations. For examples, making paper, presentation, thesis, essay, and many others. The arranging must has well language, good structurs, and good writing rules. And also academic writing has to avoid jargon language, slengs, and abbreviations. In academic writing, writers have to be able to explain topic that be taken, so that readers can understand well what delivered writers. It has to has main idea, supporting idea every praghrap to unite arguments writers.
One of views about academic writing is difficult. Every sentence with the other sentence should be supporting each other. “ Almost all respondents noted a degree of dissatifsfaction with their use of English in the professional writing. This varied from issues of formal correctness, such as article and punctuation use, and stylistic issues such as the use of passive voice and long sentences, to more complex areas such astone, richness, word choice, and idiomaticity“ (Buckingham, 2008, p. 8).
Academic writing should be formal writing style. Formal writing style that be meant here is writing style that according to International writing style. It has been agreed and known togheter. Such as, avoiding contractions, examples: won’t /WILL NOT, aren’t / ARE NOT. Part of writers think that in academic writing should avoid using pronoun I, You, and We. The use of I or we does not necessarily make a piece of writing in informal. The vocabulary shift and some of the other features listed above are more important for maintaining a consistent academic style (Kayfets, 2009). Some writers think that they should never use the pronoun I (and its forms, including me, my, and mine) in academic writing, but this is not always true. Personal naratives require the use of personal opinions and personal evidence which feature the use of I pronouns (Fellag, 2011).
Academc writing has to be analysed every paragraph. One of important point should be attended is paragraph. So that, information that be caught from writers, can be understood from the paragraph that be analysed. It needs strong analysis as “These analyses looked at organizational patterns in the texts such as compare and contrast, cause and effect, definition, problem-solution, and the linguistic means by which these patterns arre expressed in discourse“ (Paltridge, 2004).
Academic writing style should be objective and rational. Objective based on things which can be seen or measured on personal feelings. It must contain more facts and details. Rational that meant is using clear thinking to make decisions and judgements based on reason, rather than passionate arguments againts a doctrine or belief.
Academic writing is formal writing. It becomes primer necessery for students of university in academic activities. It is difficult because should be formal writing style, good grammar, anlysis, objective, and rational.
References
Buckingham, L. (2008). Develovment of english academic writing competence by turkish scholars. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 3, 1-18.
Fellag, L. R. (2010). Looking ahead 2 learning about academic wiriting. Boston: Heinle & Heinle Publisher.
Hamman, L. (2005). Self-regulation in academic writing tasks. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 17, 15-26.
Patridge, B. (2004). Academic writing. Cambridge Journal, 37, 87-105.
