User:Gaydoshbrucea1/Academic writing

Academic style
Academic writing often features prose register that is conventionally characterized by "evidence...that the writer(s) have been persistent, open-minded and disciplined in the study"; that prioritizes "reason over emotion or sensual perception"; and that imagines a reader who is "coolly rational, reading for information, and intending to formulate a reasoned response."

Three linguistic patterns that correspond to these goals across fields and genres, include the following:


 * 1) a balance of caution and certainty, or a balance of hedging and boosting;
 * 2) explicit cohesion through a range of cohesive ties and moves; and
 * 3) compression, or dense noun phrases to add detail rather than more dependent clauses.
 * 4) Use of indexicality in the strategies for standard written English . Depending on the context, linguistic structures can be modified.
 * 5) One theory that attempts to account for these differences in writing is known as "discourse communities".

Research Integrity
Academic Writing is used in research in regards to specific skills of communication: descriptive, analytical, persuasive, and critical. The goal for research academic writing fundamentally encompasses executing citations, paraphrasing, crediting and inferring others' ideas as well as summarizing and analyzing.


 * Teaching academic writing, whether online, hybrid or in class relies on the following:
 * Students learning various styles like APA, MLA, Chicago.
 * Students understanding publication.
 * Students reporting valuable, relevant research.
 * Students differentiating what plagiarism is and considering for how to cite to give credit to the originator.
 * Students understanding the basic features including major issues of academic writing.

Ethics in Research
Students practice research ethics by providing feedback. Date shows that students who provide feedback for others in feedback literacy. There are 3 key elements noted in feedback literacy:


 * 1) Feedback is effective when given by a reader who has scored high and has accomplished specific writing skills as well as instruction practices.
 * 2) Management of emotions as far as criticism in feedback practices to gain "resiliency."
 * 3) Learning through peer review and giving feedback increases the writer's quality.

Literacy Feedback
The definition of "feedback  is  defined  as  a  process through which learners make sense of information from various sources and use it to enhance their work or learning strategies." However, the act of providing feedback is four pronged: appreciating the feedback, making judgments, managing affects of the feedback, and taking action with a cache of ways to use the feedback. Considering the four steps, feedback can be provided through dialogue in person or in video producing provided there has been sufficient training to be effective in communicating the judgments made.

CHAT GPT[edit]
Academic writing has a platform, Chat GPT, for changing the way writers compose, thus interjecting questionable reliance on critical thinking technology. Chat GPT is studied for it's limitation in the different fields of study such as science, education, healthcare. The AI model used a robot to think for the user, however, due to the nature of the the limitations, studies are conducted as to the robotic ability for critical thinking capacity.

Many forms of academic writing take advantage of Chat GPT capabilities as Google, Microsoft offer it in their technology.

Chat GPT (Generative Pre-Train Transformer) is changing academic writing and "passed 92.5% of the theory-of-mind tasks, achieving a mental capacity equivalent to that of a 9-year-old child"

This tech machine is subject to regulation and consideration when deciphering the subject and topic in written discourse.

Avoidance of plagiarism

 * Plagiarism, the "wrongful appropriation of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions", and the representation of them as one's own original work, is considered academic dishonesty, and can lead to severe consequences.

Criticism[edit]
There is a need for literary and philosophical gurus to bring philosophy and everyday life to come together.

In reflecting the criticism for academic writing, one can prescribe the variety of claims within academic discourse communities in that writing scholarly often challenges the writer's critical thinking within and across disciplines.

Intertextuality[edit]
Intertextuality is the combining of past writings into original, new pieces of text. According to Julia Kristeva, all texts are part of a larger network of intertextuality, meaning they are connected to prior texts through various links, such as allusions, repetitions, and direct quotations, whether they are acknowledged or not. Writers (often unwittingly) make use of what has previously been written and thus some degree of borrowing is inevitable. One of the key characteristics of academic writing across disciplines is the use of explicit conventions for acknowledging intertextuality, such as citation and bibliography. The conventions for marking intertextuality vary depending on the discourse community, with examples including MLA, APA, IEEE, and Chicago styles.

Summarizing and integrating other texts in academic writing is often metaphorically described as "entering the conversation," as described by Kenneth Burke:

Iterability: citing, with repetition, from simple fragments to wide use of parts of the other texts.

Presupposition: assuming one's audience makes reference to a text with respect to a context or phrases even when the reader is not present.

With intertexuality creativity is borrowed.

Novel argument
In a discourse community, academic writers build on the ideas of previous writers to establish their own claims. Successful writers know the importance of conducting research within their community and applying the knowledge gained to their own work. By synthesizing and expanding upon existing ideas, writers are able to make novel contributions to the discourse.

Wittgenstein's Curse[edit]
Within the academic community, there is discussion on bad academic writing. The ever changing language poses difficulty in comprehending the prose.

The curse that language is limited so be sure to make disciplines, especially of the philosophical nature, meaningful in academic writing.

"Give up literary criticism!" Wittgenstein provoked guilt if the goal of writing was not useful. From this declaration, it is said that Wittgenstein cursed the academic world and "professionals of the humanistic and social science disciplines that took his kind of seriousness as an essential goal."

The ultimate goal in academic writing is to find where the truth exists or else academic writing will cease to exist.