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Gianel Arnea D.
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XI – Galileo (Humss 1)
In schools we need to be professional on doing our writings, activities, projects and etc. that’s
why we have academic writing skills to learn. Academic writing or also known as scholar writing is a
formal style of writing used in universities and scholarly publications. You’ll encounter it in journal
articles and books on academic topics, and you’ll be expected to write your essays, research papers, and
dissertation in academic style. Academic writing is a connotation of producing, codifying, transmitting,
evaluating, renovating, teaching, and learning knowledge and ideology in academic disciplines. Being
able to write in an academic style is essential to disciplinary learning and critical for academic success.
We use academic writing to make our research, essays or thesis to be powerful and to be more specific
followed by a true evidence and objectives. Though the tone, style, content, and organization of
academic writing vary across genres and across publication methods, nearly all academic writing shares a
relatively formal prose register, frequent reference to other academic work, and the use of fairly stable
rhetorical moves to define the scope of the project, situate it in the relevant research, and to advance a
new contribution. Therefore, in this essay I’m going to differentiate the difference between academic
writing and disciplines of writing.
There are some characteristics of academic writing and that are the structured, evidence, critical,
balanced, precise, objective, formal and I’m going to evaluate them one by one. First is the structured
academic writing should have a clear structure. The structure will often derive from the genre of writing.
Second the evidence, opinions and arguments in academic writing should be supported by evidence.
Often the writing will be based on information from experts in the field, and as such, it will be important
to reference the information appropriately, for example via the use of in-text citations and a reference
section. The writing should be coherent, with logical progression throughout, and cohesive, with the
different parts of the writing clearly connected. Careful planning before writing is essential to ensure
that the final product will be well structured, with a clear focus and logical progression of ideas. Third is
the critical, as an academic writer, you should not simply accept everything you read as fact. You need to
analyze and evaluate the information you are writing about, in other words make judgements about it,
before you decide whether and how to integrate it into your own writing. Critical writing requires a great
deal of research in order for the writer to develop a deep enough understanding of the topic to be truly
critical about it. Fourth is the balanced academic writing should be balanced. This means giving
consideration to all sides of the issue and avoiding bias, don’t just focus on one facts or articles try to
explore and analyze everything. Fifth is the precise academic writing should use clear and precise
language to ensure the reader understands the meaning. This includes the use of technical vocabulary,
which should be used when it conveys the meaning more precisely than a similar non-technical term.
Sixth is the objective, academic writing is objective. In other words, the emphasis is placed on the
arguments and information, rather than on the writer. Last is the formal, academic writing is more
formal than everyday writing. It tends to use longer words and more complex sentences, while avoiding
contractions and colloquial or informal words or expressions that might be common in spoken English.
That is the characteristics of the academic writing.
Therefore, we need to differentiate academic writing and disciplines of writing. Well they all have
different types of writings and these two are one of them, academic writing focuses on objectives and
evidences and discipline of writing is a systematical way of writing. Writing in the disciplines, on the
other hand, refers to writing assignments tailored to the genres of a specific discipline or field. For
instance, a science course might require students to write a lab report, while a sociology course might
assign a case study. Writing in the disciplines is an effective way to embed the teaching of writing within
the genres and conventions of a specific discipline or career. It helps make writing assignments more
meaningful by connecting them to real-world situations. It also helps improve career readiness by
aligning writing instruction with the types of writing that students will be expected to produce in the
workforce. However, if academic writing have multiple characteristics disciplines of writing don’t have
any characteristics instead it has a five general academic categories: Business and Communication,
Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences and Mathematics. These categories used in disciplines writing to
be more specific and knowledgeable, because each disciple has its own style, structure and format when
it comes to academic writing. The first is the humanities category is further broken down by subject and
common rhetorical writing tasks in that discipline: analysis, argument and persuasion, cause and effect,
classification, comparison and contrast, definition, description and narrative. The second is business and
communication, this handout will help you write business letters required in many different situations,
from applying for a job to requesting or delivering information. While the examples that are discussed
specifically are the application letter and cover letter, this handout also highlights strategies for effective
business writing in general.
To summarize, the differences between this two can also be a comparison between them, because they
can be both use on writing, essays, thesis, research or even doing your resume or your college literature.
They can be both structure and logically written but don’t have any objectives because as I said academic
writing refers to your opinion and mainly objectives (impersonal) and technical. It is formal by avoiding
casual or conversational language, such as contractions or informal vocabulary. In writing we all need to
have a discipline, it is important. Without this, nothing will get done or will get written. Having discipline
causes any writer, especially those who write articles for the internet, to think clearly and go beyond his
or her mundane concerns. When one has discipline, the focus is on the output and not on the ego. In the
end both are useful and can attain our writings skills in various of topics and all.

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