First of all, Swales and Feak (2012) describes many features for graduated students to confer during the academic writing. According to their features, most of the paper should avoid use first-person pronoun, contraction, negative forms, and do not use the words “you and etc.” The paper, “The MFA in Arts Management” (Rosenstein, 2013), follows the most of the directions from the Swales and Feak (2012), but there are still some differences from their feature. In the background part, the professor Rosenstein wrote that “We lack basic data about the field of arts management in higher education”. She directly wrote in first-person pronoun to describe the limited information in this discipline. However, she only use the word “we” only one time in the paper. Therefore, I …show more content…
She wrote the question directly to make the readers to think about some relevance issues, such as “If an AA/M MFA requires just two full-time years, can it be considered more advanced than an MA or MBA? If the MFA is not a more advanced degree, then what are the differences between the MA, MBA, and MFA?” Therefore, in my opinion, academic papers in arts management are informality due to its multiple characteristic. In order to make different backgrounds people, such as dancer, painter, musician, and even business man, cross their field and combine their creativity, the arts management’s paper often is written in informal. As a result, people who work in arts management can also do the promotion and make the arts connect to the