Academic Writing: The Author and the Audience
Academic Writing: The Relationship between the Author and the Audience
Academic writing is an ambiguous term. There are several articles that have been written about, trying to define it, to understand it. Each article represents a different aspect of academic writing. Some talk about the relationship between second language learner and academic writing, others argue that academic writing is too impersonal and students fail to communicate in their writings because they fail to grasp the meaning of academic writing. Trying to understand academic writing, as a whole is near impossible. However, how about directly “in this paper I will focus on one specific feature”…if one were to look at just one aspect of academic writing, like the relationship between the author and the audience, one would gain a better understanding on how: the relationships between the author and audience is formulated, the different techniques that writers can use to successfully communicate successfully their thoughts to the audience, and what the relationship means to different people.
Section I: My Personal Experience with Academic Writing
Writing has always been an enjoyable experience for me. From the summaries that I wrote in High School, to the academic essays I wrote last quarter in Core, I have seen that ideas flow from one point to the other quite easily for me. I find that writing is my tool to deliver information and communicate my thoughts and opinions to my audience, the reader. However, like any new student taking a college course for the first time, when I was asked to produce a strong academically written paper, I quivered. Never before had I been asked to produce a written document that presented the information and the materials in an objective manner. It was difficult. In high school, I was or I and my classmates we were taught never to use the first person pronoun ‘I’, in Core this guideline was reinforced but with more leeway. We were allowed to express our
Academic writing is an ambiguous term. There are several articles that have been written about, trying to define it, to understand it. Each article represents a different aspect of academic writing. Some talk about the relationship between second language learner and academic writing, others argue that academic writing is too impersonal and students fail to communicate in their writings because they fail to grasp the meaning of academic writing. Trying to understand academic writing, as a whole is near impossible. However, how about directly “in this paper I will focus on one specific feature”…if one were to look at just one aspect of academic writing, like the relationship between the author and the audience, one would gain a better understanding on how: the relationships between the author and audience is formulated, the different techniques that writers can use to successfully communicate successfully their thoughts to the audience, and what the relationship means to different people.
Section I: My Personal Experience with Academic Writing
Writing has always been an enjoyable experience for me. From the summaries that I wrote in High School, to the academic essays I wrote last quarter in Core, I have seen that ideas flow from one point to the other quite easily for me. I find that writing is my tool to deliver information and communicate my thoughts and opinions to my audience, the reader. However, like any new student taking a college course for the first time, when I was asked to produce a strong academically written paper, I quivered. Never before had I been asked to produce a written document that presented the information and the materials in an objective manner. It was difficult. In high school, I was or I and my classmates we were taught never to use the first person pronoun ‘I’, in Core this guideline was reinforced but with more leeway. We were allowed to express our