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The Process of Writing Involves The Following 10 Principles of Academic Writing

The process of academic writing involves 10 key principles: having a clear purpose such as to persuade, analyze, or inform; supporting a persuasive purpose with reason and evidence; examining causes and relationships for analytical purposes; presenting all sides of an issue objectively while still emphasizing one's own viewpoint; maintaining a single focus on the thesis in each paragraph; achieving coherence of ideas and cohesion at the sentence level; using logical organization with an introduction, body, and conclusion; precisely choosing words to convey exact meaning; avoiding wordiness with sentences over 25 words; and preventing repetition through sentence variety.

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The Process of Writing Involves The Following 10 Principles of Academic Writing

The process of academic writing involves 10 key principles: having a clear purpose such as to persuade, analyze, or inform; supporting a persuasive purpose with reason and evidence; examining causes and relationships for analytical purposes; presenting all sides of an issue objectively while still emphasizing one's own viewpoint; maintaining a single focus on the thesis in each paragraph; achieving coherence of ideas and cohesion at the sentence level; using logical organization with an introduction, body, and conclusion; precisely choosing words to convey exact meaning; avoiding wordiness with sentences over 25 words; and preventing repetition through sentence variety.

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Academic Writing Topic 2: The Process of Writing

The process of writing involves the following 10 principles of academic writing

1. CLEAR PURPOSE
The key purpose in an academic writing is to persuade, analyse/synthesize, and inform about a
given topic.

2. PERSUASIVE PURPOSE
In persuasive academic writing, the author chooses one answer to his question, supports it by using
reason and evidence, and tries to persuade reader about his point of view.

3. ANALYTICAL PURPOSE
The purpose is to explain and evaluate possible answers to the question. Analytical approach means
investigating causes, examining effects, assessing ways to solve the problem, finding the
relationship between various approaches, and analysing different arguments

4. OBJECTIVENESS (also called completeness of arguments)


The author wants to stand strong behind his own opinions. Thus he emphasizes his point of view
and tries to prove the thesis statement with strong arguments. That doesn’t mean it is possible to
neglect the opposing side. The author has to prove having researched all sides of the issue and
having understood the opposing arguments.

5. SINGLE FOCUS
Every paragraph (and every sentence) in the text has to support the thesis statement.
There should not be any irrelevant or contradictory information.
Academic Writing Topic 2: The Process of Writing

6. COHERENCE AND COHESION


Coherence means the connection of ideas at the idea level, and cohesion means the connection of
ideas at the sentence level. Coherence refers to so called rhetorical aspects of writing, such as
developing and supporting the argument, or organizing and clarifying ideas.
The cohesion of writing focuses on the grammatical aspects of writing.

7. LOGICAL ORGANISATION
There is a standard pattern: introduction, body, and conclusion. Each paragraph logically leads to
the next one.

8. PRECISE & COMPLETE CONSCIOUS CHOICE OF WORDS


Conveys exact, clear and complete meaning.

9. AVOIDING WORDINESS
Sentences longer than 25 words should be rewritten more clearly and coherently.

10. BEWARE OF REPETITION AND LACK OF VARIETY


Every sentence should introduce a new idea, support or explain the previous idea, not repeat it.
There should be large variety of short and longer sentences. Also sentences starting with the same
expression or the same linker or academic collocation should be avoided.

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