Academic writing encompasses expository and argumentative prose used by students, faculty, and researchers to convey information on specific subjects through essays, theses, reports, and journal articles. It is characterized by a precise, semi-formal, impersonal, and objective style, typically organized in formats such as essays or reports. Effective academic writing requires clear communication of complex ideas to a general audience, avoiding assumptions about the reader's prior knowledge of the topic.

1. Academic
Writing

2. Academic Writing
• It refers to the forms of
expository and argumentative
prose used by students,
faculty & researchers to
convey a body of information
about a particular subject.

3. Academic Writing
• It is writing an essay, thesis,
report, journal article or other
document for purposes of
educating the reader or
achieving some scholarly aim
for the writer.

4. Academic Writing
• It deals with the underlying
theories and causes governing
processes and practices in
everyday life, as well as
exploring alternative
explanations for these events.

5. Academic Writing
• Precise
• Semi-Formal
• Impersonal
• Objective

6. Academic Writing
• Structure
• Essay Format
• Report Format

7. Academic Writing
• Essay Format
• It typically follows the format of
an essay
• Introduction
• Body
• Conclusion

8. Academic Writing
• Essay Format
• Introduction
• informs the reader about the
nature of the topic
• May also summarize very
succinctly, in a sentence or two,
your position on the issue

9. Academic Writing
• Essay Format
• Body
• It is where the topic is
discussed, elaborated and
evaluated

10. Academic Writing
• Essay Format
• Conclusion
• It constitutes a conclusion in which you
may summarize the overall points
made.
• The concluding paragraph is also a
good point at which to move the essay
forward to touch on implications or
future advancements surrounding the
issues addressed.

11. Academic Writing
• Report Format
• It is often organized around the
identification of problems or
difficulties and corresponding
solutions.
• It is divided according to clearly
labelled sections, such as
“Introduction”, “Discussion”,
“Conclusions”, and
“Recommendations”.

12. Academic Writing
• Abstract Thought
• It requires you to clearly describe
abstract forms and their
component parts, their links to
other abstract forms, as well as
where they are positioned in
relation to a general, overall
system.

13. Academic Writing
• Audience
• You must target a more general
audience than just your lecturer and/or
marker. You should assume that your
readers will be intelligent thinking
people, but they may not be specifically
informed of your topic.
• Do not presume that your reader knows
all the terms and concepts associated