Ministry of Primary
and Secondary Education
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Academic writing is a formal style of writing used in universities and scholarly publications. You'll encounter it in journal articles and books on academic topics, and you'll be expected to write your essays, research papers, and dissertation in academic style. It focuses on evidence-based arguments and logical reasoning to guide a reader's understanding of a subject. Academic writing has a purpose. It may provide or information, the results of other peoples' research, the critique of other peoples' research, your own research findings, your own ideas based on academic research conducted by others, etc. It may be a combination of a few of these: