Writing 105 Practices of Academic Writing

1. What does this mean? Writing 105 Practices of Academic Writing

2. This class will not teach you “How To Write” “Teaching writing is a hussle.” -Cormac McCarthy

3. This class will not teach you “How To Write Like a (insert your future career goal here)” The nanoporous alumina based DNA biosensor was thermostated in the complementary target (DENV1) solution at 45°C and target with one base mismatch (DENV3) at 53°C respectively for 30 min followed by cooling up to room temperature to allow complete hybridization. The biosensor was subsequently rinsed with ultrapure water to remove any unhybridized target, followed by electrochemical measurements at room temperature. -from a biochemistry article In order to understand how grammar has affected the teaching of writing, it will first be necessary to look briefly at the ways in which traditional grammar was taught in America prior to the rise of modern linguistics. The study of formal English grammar became a popular subject in the common schools of America around the time of the American revolution. -from a writing studies article

4. This class will teach you how academic discourse works Reading texts in the university “What is the writer trying to do in this text? What is his or her project?” Entering, through writing, into an academic conversation “Whenwriting as an intellectual, you need to move beyond the sorts of simplistic oppositions (pro or con, good or evil, guilty or innocent) that frame most of the arguments on TV or in the newspapers.”

5. Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally's assistance. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress. -Kenneth Burke