tailieunhanh - Criticality, depth and voice in academic writing

Academic writing plays a crucial role in academic as well as professional life of learners. Developing academic writing takes long time and efforts. Though there are multiple factors that play the role of enablers or disablers for success in academic writing, awareness of basic characteristics of academic writing is a fundamental prerequisite. Similarly, the requirements of academic writing differ from culture to culture and institution to institution. Therefore, it is highly important for learners to understand the expectations of academic writing in their institutions. This article describes an ethnographic study that was conducted in the University of Sydney, Australia to understand a course coordinator’s expectation regarding criticality, depth and voice in academic writing. To answer the research question raised in the study, data were collected from published and unpublished secondary sources, an interview coordinator of the of course Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and an assignment in SLA. The thematic analysis of data revealed that criticality, depth and voice are important characteristics of academic writing. Different ways to meet the expectation of criticality, depth and voice are discussed and some suggestions for further research are forwarded based on the discussion. | CRITICALITY DEPTH AND VOICE IN ACADEMIC WRITING Madhu Neupane Bastola ABSTRACT Academic writing plays a crucial role in academic as well as professional life of learners. Developing academic writing takes long time and efforts. Though there are multiple factors that play the role of enablers or disablers for success in academic writing awareness of basic characteristics of academic writing is a fundamental prerequisite. Similarly the requirements of academic writing differ from culture to culture and institution to institution. Therefore it is highly important for learners to understand the expectations of academic writing in their institutions. This article describes an ethnographic study that was conducted in the University of Sydney Australia to understand a course coordinator s expectation regarding criticality depth and voice in academic writing. To answer the research question raised in the study data were collected from published and unpublished secondary sources an interview coordinator of the of course Second Language Acquisition SLA and an assignment in SLA. The thematic analysis of data revealed that criticality depth and voice are important characteristics of academic writing. Different ways to meet the expectation of criticality depth and voice are discussed and some suggestions for further research are forwarded based on the discussion. Key Words academic writing criticality depth voice. INTRODUCTION Academic writing- writing as practiced in the academy- is crucial for one s academic and professional success as well as social identities Hyland 2009 2011 . It is perhaps the most important skill that second language students need Hyland 2013 427 because it is not only required to demonstrate their learning but also to construct knowledge. Similarly through writing second language L2 students learn to construct texts gain content knowledge and learn language conventions of the texts in question Canagarajah 2011 . Moreover writing helps students in the .

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