EAPP

• Academic Writing addresses a specific audience composed of people who are knowledgeable on the subject.
• Formality in academic writing reflects your dignified stance as a member of the academic community.
• The language used in academic writing requires precision to make it a "legitimate" piece of writing.
• Objectivity in academic writing means the writing must be impersonal and maintains a certain level of social distance.
• Explicitness in academic writing demands the use of signposts that allow readers to trace the relationships in the parts of a study.
• Caution in academic writing requires care since knowledge is built from proven theories and concepts.
• Nominalization in academic writing means the verbs are made central as they denote action.
• Transforming verbs into nouns in academic writing helps readers focus on the action and not on the doer of the action.
• Plagiarism is defined as the copying verbatim of language and ideas of other writers and taking credit for them.
• Plagiarism of ideas occurs when credit for a work is ascribed to oneself untruthfully.
• Plagiarism of Language happens when an author uses the language of another writer and claims it as his or her own.
• Author-oriented citation in academic writing starts with the surname of the author, followed by the year of publication in parentheses.
• Verbs of statement such as argues, posits, and emphasizes at the start of paragraph or sentence may be used in academic writing.
• In a Text-oriented citation, a paragraph or sentence from a source is followed with the surname of the author of the work and the year of publication.
• The citation in academic writing must be enclosed in parentheses.
• The thesis statement is the overall idea or argument of your work.
• The reaction paper is more formal, more descriptive and uses the rhetorical devices of description and narration in order to prove a point.
• Critiques are an important rhetorical pattern in academic writing as they present a balanced view of things.