ACADEMIC WRITING “MAIN FEATURES”


A  paraphrasing based on the Academic Writing for Higher Education Book by Maria Teresa, an English professor at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Carabobo, Venezuela.

An academic wirting is the production of good theory or intelectual knowledge of academicians in an educational setting, where knowledge is exchanged and transmitted with the purpose of showing what writers have studied, learnt and created. What is to exchange here, is basically reflected on experiences into the classrooms, procedures, reseaches, readings, social educational-related events where the source has a great privilege, and the author has to be mentioned; Additionally, we can say that this demonstration by creaters is seen on essays, abstracts, reports, a-levels, summeries, thesis, presentations, and so on. Let us see how written features of an academic output is set by using the following criteria: Formality, objectivity, complexity, conciseness, referencing, substance and non-sexist language:

Firstly, we will focus on the formality and objectivity:

Academic Writing -What should be-