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Alyssa Lattanzi Academic Writing Academic writing could be a variety of things. Academic writing could be an essay, a research paper, lab reports, outlines or even poetry. Academic writing incorporates in the writing, the author’s point of view. It contains persuasion in which the author uses specific quotes or types of rhetoric to persuade his/or her audience to feel a certain way, think a certain way about a subject or even change the way the reader sees the subject. The piece will contain the author’s argument as well. The argument and the persuasion usually go together. The author will present to the reader their view, or opinion, on a certain subject. The author will then use the specific quotes to show how the quote proves the side the author stands on. He/or she will use persuasion along with the argument to make the reader see their point of view. Specific analysis will be used in these types of writing to explain to the reader how the quote or piece of information relates, and or proves the argument. The kinds of academic writing I have done in the past year have mainly been literary analyses and prep for Socratic seminars. I have also done lab write ups for my science classes. One other kind of academic writing I have done before is DBQ’s in my history class, as well as daily practice thesis writing. All of the above assignments I have done include incorporating quotes and prior knowledge or knowledge from a book to help prove my view on a subject and to persuade the reader to agree with me based on the facts provided. For English, writing literary analyses and prep for Socratic seminars helped me learn how to search the text for a specific quote that helped prove the point I was making or helped support the argument. Each paragraph I wrote consisted of a quote or two and at least three to four sentences of analysis to back up the reason the quote was chosen. In history, DBQ’s helped me learn how to use arguments accurately by using information remembered from the text book to back up specific economic, political and social issues. Each day, we have to write a thesis for a prompt about a specific opinion about the event that happened. In my science classes, lab write ups also include some level of argument. One writes a hypothesis, tests the hypothesis and tries to prove the hypothesis right with evidence from the data collected from the lab. Therefore, academic writing comes in all shapes and forms and every time, it uses persuasion and an argument in the piece. I have had a lot of assignments where I have had to use persuasion and argument. For the most part, I did okay. The main thing I struggle with is finding specific quotes to prove my argument.
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