Torrance, M., Thomas, G. V. and Robinson, E. J. (1994). The writing strategies of graduate research students in the Social Sciences. Higher Education, 27(3), 379.Academic writing is difficult. It requires a complex combination of generating ideas, selecting the ideas that are appropriate to the writing task, translating these into text and polishing the text to produce a presentable document. In doing this the writer has to attend not only to his or her own thoughts, but also to the content and style conventions of the community for whom the piece is being written.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Academic Writing is tough
Torrance, Thomas, Robinson (1994: 379) claimed:
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I couldn't agree more.
ReplyDeleteIn the ulitmate purpose of advancing ideas and conversation, would a more man-on-the-street kind of writing do worse off a job? What salient features unique to academic writing are needed to serve such a goal?