Features Of Academic Writing Essay

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Academic writing is used for the benefit of a learner, teacher, scholar or writer with the purpose of claiming and justification approach for a research, which is connected with the education system (school level, college, and university level). The word academic is derived (in mid-16th century) from French word ‘académique’ or medieval Latin academicus, from academia, from Greek ‘Akadēmeia’, from ‘Akadēmos’ the hero after whom Plato’s garden was named.
It means every writing is not the part of academic writing because of claiming and justification approach for a research in the education system is necessary for academic writing. For instance, an official language in not the academic writing, i.e. applications, letters are included in that …show more content…

orthography, lexical items, morphological level, syntax level, i.e. grammar (phrases, clauses, sentences) semantic level and pragmatic level (discourse level). So it means we use formal and logical language to convey our message in front of the audience who is researcher about the research in academic writing. For instance, in academic writing, we are not allowed to use SMS language like you into u. We should not join two words like don’t, can’t, aren’t etc. in formal writing. We should avoid using colloquialism or slang terms like ‘sort of’ or ‘basically’. Instead, we should use ‘somewhat’ or ‘fundamentally’. We should not use clichés in academic writing because it is not appropriate phrases like ‘at the end of the day’ or ‘in the nick of time’. Instead we should write ‘finally’ or ‘at the critical moment’. We should not repeat the words because repetition of words is called tautology which is unnecessary for any research. Pleonasm is another term which means when we add a word, it adds no extra meaning to a sentence. In both cases the word is redundant and should be deleted. So here are some examples of redundant words which are not

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