What is Academic Writing Style

What is Academic Writing Style? Courtesy: unsplash.com Academic writing doesn’t have a single definition. You’ll see forms of it in different areas of academia and research. The goal stays the same to prove a theory or hypothesis. Writers dissect thoughts, question reasoning, and support conclusions. Academic writing differs from other forms of writing because it looks at a topic from an impersonal, research-driven angle. The language is formal, and vocabulary and structures are concise. Academic writers analyse a topic from a neutral standpoint. A judge, for instance, is objective. They examine evidence without bias and then pass judgement. You won’t use the pronoun ‘I’ in academic essays often because your opinion on a topic isn’t necessary. A question may ask for your opinion, but you present an argument from an impersonal angle in most cases. Consider: I think traffic is very bad in some big cities. Traffic congestion is a serious problem in big cities. Whether you think it’s bad or not doesn’t change the fact that traffic congestion is a problem in big cities. Nouns and noun forms make effective impersonal subjects. In the example above, ‘traffic congestion’ is a compound noun. Other popular forms include: Adjectives + nouns: Extreme weather contributed to Adverbs + participles + nouns: Recently discovered fossils reveal... Compound adjectives + nouns: Car-free days promote