Academic writing I believe is any sort of writing where you as the writer take a point or argue about something, it could also be any writing that really has to do with your education or has to do with school. Academic writing is most likely in a certain essay form. It isn’t something that has many bullets or an outline that you do on some information. Academic writing is something you go over many times to make sure it is in proper form and makes sense, not just a sloppy rough draft that you type up for the first time. The purpose for academic writing is to persuade or explain a point you are taking to your audience. What I think academic writing does is inform the audience your point and provide them with more knowledge about this subject.
An academic paper I have written before is a paper where I had to take a point in a controversial issue. I did my paper on abortion and how it should be kept legal. Steps I did to complete this piece of writing were that I first had to look up a bunch of information on the subject. In order to be successful in proving your point you must first be knowledgeable about the subject and have a clean idea of what it is. I then gathered this information and dug up the main information and wrote it down. Another important part of my research was to look up the main reasons again what I was writing. This way I could look up information to counter again these points. Having strong counter points I believe makes a great argument in your paper and really gets the audience to go against a lot of their beliefs. Finding great sources was a key point also. Without good sources the validity of your paper is questioned.

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