ACADEMIC WRITTING

The pursuit for academic excellence entails and requires a lot of skills in writing. Academic writing is unique since it needs special skills for different kinds of academic papers. Each paper has specific structure or formats that student or writer must follow.

Academic writings in clued research papers, report, reviews, annotated bibliography, case studies, applications essays, comparative/contrast essays, personal statements and creative writings. The list is however endless with emerging academic fields and dynamism in the disciplines.

Research paper generally is an in depth analysis of a subject and/or data that already exists. It might be argumentative which involves debate and persuasion or just analytical. Analytical research paper requires advance skills in evaluation and further explorations. Reports literally analyses a problem or a subject, for example, laboratory reports. It’s systematic in nature and defines or gives meaning to the results or findings in an experiment or research.

Annotated bibliography is simply a list of citations from sources or reference or works cited. The citations are followed by summary of the main focus of the work cited usually approximately 150 words. It serves to inform the reader on quality and accuracy of the source of the information. Dissertation of these forms the vital part of students’ course work for the attainment of a degree or any other professional qualification. It is usually presented to the lecturer or supervision to show and support the author’s findings from a research.

Case studied is very specific in nature and it intends to explore everything about something. Speeches and creative writings express ideas.  Speeches are oral in nature while creative writings are usually put in writing and they tend to deviate from restrictive rules of facts and logic. Application essays and personal statements are usually required by learning/research institutes from the applicants.

The structure of an academic paper should be perfect and upholds all the laid standards for an academic writing. A good paper structure are relevant content is a pre-requisite to a good grade. The common part of an essay includes the introduction.

The body part and conclusion, however, these will very depending on the type of academic paper required. The writer or student should also be equipped with the commonly used formatting and styles like MLA, APA, Harvard, and Chicago/Turbian. It is this worth noting that, a grade –A paper requires vast skills in writing.