Academic Writing Checklist

Dear students,
I want to make sure that you understand what academic writing is.
The purpose of academic writing is the presentation of NEW knowledge by reviewing what is already known about a specific topic. You should include an opinion, but your opinion should not be personal; rather it should be a logical conclusion after presenting your evidence to support your thesis. Academic writing is written for scholars by scholars, with all university writers being scholars in this context.
Therefore, please make sure that you can justify your topic choice and thesis on the basis that you are presenting information in a new way that would be of interest to fellow scholars.
This is very hard, I know. The actual writing is probably the least you have to worry about!
Kind regards,
Chris Elvin

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