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Elements of Academic Writing

This document discusses the key elements of academic writing. It identifies elements like arguments, quotations, comparisons, citations, references, and discussion that make writing formal, systematic, and acceptable. Arguments are a necessary element that help establish knowledge and lead a text to an effective conclusion. Academic writing uses arguments flowing from arguments to theory and from theory to arguments to elaborate on issues and problems.

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Elements of Academic Writing

This document discusses the key elements of academic writing. It identifies elements like arguments, quotations, comparisons, citations, references, and discussion that make writing formal, systematic, and acceptable. Arguments are a necessary element that help establish knowledge and lead a text to an effective conclusion. Academic writing uses arguments flowing from arguments to theory and from theory to arguments to elaborate on issues and problems.

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3 ELEMENTS OF ACADEMIC
WRITING

B. Ed. 2nd Year


ELEMENTS OF ACADEMIC
WRITING
 Academic writing is different from other types
of writing.
 It has major elements:
 Argument
 Quotation
 Comparison
 Citation
 References
 Discussion
 Cohesion
 Style, etc.
 These elements make writing formal,
systematic, unified, and acceptable.
 They try to make writing without plagiarism.
 With the help of elements, academic
becomes more logical, analytical and
critical.
 Writing becomes cohesive and it becomes
grammatically and semantically connected.
 Writing needs coherence.
1. ARGUMENT
 Academic writing displays logical and factual
arguments about the given topic or issue.
 Argument is necessary in writing.
 Without it, it is not easy to get proper
conclusion or solution of a given issue.
 The arguments lead the text towards a
successful and effective conclusion.
 They help us to form and establish a new
knowledge in our work.
 For example, if we write an essay on Effects
of Corona Virus, we have to present
different arguments in each paragraph, and
we can construct a meaningful conclusion.
 Arguments are developed from systematic
way.
 They are logics or claims made by the
creative author being based on their reading,
experience or knowledge.
 Without argument, a piece of writing becomes a personal or
non-academic writing.
 Arguments usually flow in two directions within an
academic writing.
 The first direction is from arguments to theory.
 The arguments are generated to develop a theory about the
given issue.
 The second direction is from theory or problem to
arguments.
 The arguments are generated to elaborated the given
problem or theory.
 The arguments can be either for or against the given issue
or theory.
 Problem: Currently, roads are often
congested, which is...
 Argument 1: It is claimed that building more
roads is costly, increases...
 Argument: 2: Road pricing has many practical
difficulties, while people are...
 Conclusion: There is little alternative to a
road building programme...
 Problem: B. Ed. First Year students got
outsatnding scores in Major English.
 Argument 1: Students do not study hard.
 Argument 2: Students are not interested in
their subject.
 Argument 3:
 Problem: Nowadays, people are becoming
unhealthy.

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