Analyzing Academic Writing

Analyzing Academic Writing

Find two papers, one that is related to your major and one that isn’t. You can choose two student papers or two faculty papers or one of each. You may see the abstract of a paper and can download the paper to read it. As you read these papers, pay close attention to the six features of academic writing noted above. Which standards are present in each paper? How does the presence or absence of these standards affect the quality of each paper?

Compose a post of at least 250 words in which you report your observations to your classmates. Consider what you have learned and can apply to your own research writing in this class and beyond.

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Analyzing Academic Writing
The two papers selected are the thesis papers from the university repository; various features of academic writing are observed in these papers. Among the features available in the two, theses include the introduction; this is meant to present the background information about the study. It links past research and the current research;

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