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Advanced Academic Writing

Advanced Academic Writing. With Dr. Matt Barton. What is academic writing?. 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

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Advanced Academic Writing

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  1. Advanced Academic Writing With Dr. Matt Barton

  2. What is academic writing?

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. Read Selection • (Sample readings from journals)

  7. What are the characteristics of an academic writing style?

  8. Academic Peer-Review

  9. Peer Review • Acts as a filter • Improves quality of research

  10. Elsevier’s Peer Review Criteria • Originality • Structure • Previous Research • Ethical Issues

  11. Academic Publishing • Scholarly Journals • College English, PMLA, CCC, RSQ • University Book Presses • Academic Conferences • CCCC, NCTE, MLA, RSA

  12. Top Myths about Academic Writing • It must be dry and boring at all times. • It must use lots of jargon and the longest words you can find in a thesaurus. • It must be printed on paper. • It is only written by well-established professors with decades of experience. • Only content matters; style and elegance are irrelevant.

  13. 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

  14. 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 goodacademic prose. • Learn how to put together and perform a good conference presentation. • Prepare to “join the conversation” of your chosen discipline or major.

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