Concept and Meaning of Academic Writing

Academic writing is of utmost importance when it comes to higher education. From the admission process to granting of a doctorate degree, it is used in different forms. During the admission process at most universities and colleges, it is a requirement to write a statement of purpose and a personal statement. 

When you enter college, you have to make various submissions where your write-ups must follow the nuances of academic writing. Therefore, it becomes extremely important to develop your writing skills in the way that you secure maximum benefits from them. 

In the upcoming video, you will form a deeper understanding of academic writing, which would form the basis of your understanding of the entire module. 

In this video, you learnt about academic writing. Some ways of understanding academic writing are as follows:

• It refers to non-fiction writing or scholarly writing.
• Ideas are presented in a very clear and concise form.
• It adopts a formal and impersonal approach to writing.
• All opinions and ideas are supported by relevant evidence.
• It follows a set of rules, a structure and a layout.
• It relies heavily on research and subject matter.

Now that you have understood what academic writing is, in the upcoming video, let’s understand it in detail through some examples and then differentiate it from non-academic writing through some examples. 

In this video, you looked at different examples of academic and non-academic writing. Through these examples, you understood that academic and non-academic writing can be differentiated through some aspects. Academic writing will not be having the aspects shown in the following image.

Through the following example, you learnt about academic writing and understood how it should be practised. You should take a look at the following image and understand academic writing through this example. 

In this segment, you understood the concept of academic writing and differentiated between academic and non-academic forms of writing through apt examples. In the next segment, you will learn about the purpose of academic writing.