Senin, 19 Desember 2011

academic writing


ACADEMIC WRITING ABOUT ANALYSIS
Academic writing is an argument or an analysis, the process of  breaking down ideas to increas someone’s understanding. It always a form of evaluation that asks you to demonstrate knowledge and show proficiency with certain disciplinary skills of thinking, interpreting, and presenting (Irvin, 2010). Academic writing is one of the hallmarks of any institution of higher learning is the written expression of thought and knowledge as produced by resident student and scholars. Writing within the academy is at once a record and exchange of ideas, the establishment of knowledge, and the mechanism through which academia is, in part, defined. Like writing in other domains (e.g. commerce, personal correspondence, journalism, etc.), writing in academic contexts is distinguishable by its own set of sociolinguistic conventions, rhetoric, and standards (Kelley, 2008). In academic writing, Writing in a familiar or friendly style should be avoided. Jokes, personal anecdotes, and colloquial expressions are not appropriate (University of florida, 2009). Incultural analysis of written academic discourse have recently gain attention among linguists, educators, and profesional researchers invarious disciplines. Two factors have contributed to this interest: first, increasing cross-culture contacts due to growing international and scholarly exchange; and second, the growing acces to information (Jogthong, 2001).
In academic writing we must know three characteristic of academic writing, such as 1. Clear evidence in writing that the writer have been persistent, and disciplined in study.  2. The dominance of reason over emotions or sensual perception. As for emotions, every discipline recognizes at the very last the importance of passion in the ability  to dedicate oneself to research, acknowledge as often tedious.  3. An imagined reader who is coolly rational, reading for information, and intending to formulate a reasoned response (Thaiss, Chriss, & Terry, 2006).
The process of analysis strategi have two possible purposes. One is to explain to the reader how to do something: perform a task, repair machinery, and so on. The second purpose is to explain how an activity happened in the past or happens routinely. Writing that uses process analysis is seemingly everywhere. There are two types of process analysis-self-help and product direction-have an instructional purpose. However, most academic writing that uses process analysis is more likely to be informative (Pharr & Buscemi, 2005). Academic writing an analysis involves doing three things, 1. Engage in an open inquiry where the answer is not known at first (and where you leave yourself open to multiple suggestion). 2. Identify meaningful parts of the subject. 3. Examine these separate parts and determine how they relate to each other. An analysis breaks a subject apart to study it closely, and from this inspection, ideas for writing emerge. When writing assigments, call on you to analyze, they require you to identify the parts of the subject (part of an ad, parts of short story, past of Hamlet’s character), and then show how these parts fit or don’t fit together to create some larger effect or meaning (Irvin, 2010).
When we are want to write the academic writing, we must know about what is the academic writing and characteristic of academic writing. There are many kinds of process academic writing, one of them is analysis. Process analysis can break the process down into a clear set of steps and make the reader very easy to read the text.