Academic Writing Process

• Academic writing is a process that involves posing a question or problem, evaluating an opinion, and ending with answering questions or clarifying problems.
• Academic writing is for informing, arguing specific points, and persuading.
• Academic writing is written for various audiences, and language choices depend on the audience.
• When writing for experts, using jargon is acceptable. When writing for fellow students, use layman's terms.
• Thorough research is necessary for academic writing to back up statements with strong, valid evidence.
• Critical thinking skills include analyzing competing approaches, constructing arguments for and against alternatives, and choosing the best solution based on values and criteria.
• Effective academic writing requires acknowledging counter-arguments and writing an argument justifying your choice.
• To become a critical reader, annotate, outline, summarize, evaluate, and identify fallacies in texts.
• Max Schulman's book "Love Is a Fallacy" discusses various character traits such as perspicacious, astute, faddist, dynamo, impressionable, acme, incredulously, coveted, shrewdly, exquisite, sauerkraut, gamy, pelt, mince, resolutely, desisted, smolder, modulated, Pygmalion, and Frankenstein.
• Pygmalion is a character from the story who turned a common flower girl into a would-be aristocrat. Frankenstein is a fictional doctor who experimented with reanimating the dead and created a monster.

Explore the steps involved in academic writing process, from posing questions to presenting arguments and persuasion. Understand how to start with problematizing a concept and end with clarifying the problem or arguing a specific point.