This document outlines the objectives and key aspects of academic reading and writing. It discusses that academic writing has a specific convention, audience, and style focused on evidence-based arguments rather than opinions. Academic writing also uses a formalized prose style, specialized disciplinary language, and citations and references to previous work. The document further explains that tasks will involve critically reading examples to assess their strengths and weaknesses as academic pieces and understanding the structure of research articles and abstracts.

1. Academic Reading & Writing
Dr. Muhammad Asim Khan

2. Week’s Objectives
• To understand academic writing and what is not.
• To connect how academic/critical reading is connected to writing

3. Academic writing
• A genre that is used for writing research, at college or university
• Has a specific convention, audience, and style.
• Narrower audience compared to journalistic or fiction writing
• Evidence-based
• Argument as the bases of writing NOT writer’s opinion
• Not subjective but verifiable evidence

4. Academic writing
• Formalized prose style
• Specialized disciplinary language
• Citation, reference and acknowledgment to earlier work
• Publication: peer-reviewed journals, mongraphs, edited volumes, and
handbooks.

5. Task 1
Let’s critically read a writeup to determine its strength and weaknesses
as an academic piece

6. Academic Reading of a Journal Article
• Structure of an article
• Structure of an abstract

7. Task 2
Let’s now see and understand the structure of a research article

8. Task 3
Let’s read an Abstract and what sections it contains