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Advanced Academic Writing
With Dr. Matt Barton
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What is academic writing?
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Academic Writing
• Written by professionals for professionals (discourse communities)
• “Double blind” peer-reviewed for relevance, accuracy, and quality
• Considers all relevant prior research on the topic
• Contributes original research
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What isn’t academic writing?
• Anything written for a general rather than a specific professional audience (Scientific American, National Geographic)
• Any writing that hasn’t undergone a formal, double blind peer review process
• Any writing that does not reference other published research
• Most writing you can understand without special training or vocabulary.
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Academic or Not Academic?
• Webster’s Dictionary• Time magazine• Studies in Popular Culture journal• The New York Times• Basic Geometry textbook• The Wikipedia• Nature scientific journal
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Read Selection
• (Sample readings from journals)
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What are the characteristics of an academic writing style?
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ACADEMIC PEER-REVIEW
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Peer Review
• Acts as a filter• Improves quality of research
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Elsevier’s Peer Review Criteria
• Originality • Structure• Previous Research• Ethical Issues
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Academic Publishing
• Scholarly Journals– College English, PMLA, CCC, RSQ
• University Book Presses• Academic Conferences– CCCC, NCTE, MLA, RSA
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Top Myths about Academic Writing
1. It must be dry and boring at all times.2. It must use lots of jargon and the longest
words you can find in a thesaurus.3. It must be printed on paper.4. It is only written by well-established
professors with decades of experience.5. Only content matters; style and elegance are
irrelevant.
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About Me
• Received PhD from University of South Florida in 2005 in Rhetoric & Composition
• 13 years of college teaching experience• Author of Dungeons & Desktops, Vintage
Games, Honoring the Code, co-editor of Wiki Writing as well as eight journal articles
• Presented over a dozen times at international, national, and regional academic conferences
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Why this course?
• Read, analyze, and better understand academic writing in your chosen field.
• Find, understand, evaluate, and integrate academic publications into your own work.
• Learn to write good academic prose.• Learn how to put together and perform a good
conference presentation.• Prepare to “join the conversation” of your
chosen discipline or major.