Academic Writing

The purpose of academic writing

 to report
 to answer a question
 to discuss a subject
 To give information
Types of academic writing
 Essay
 E-mail
 Letter
 Notes
 Report
 Project
 Dissertation/ Thesis
 Paper
Keys to the successful writing
 Finding suitable sources
 Avoiding plagiarism
 Paraphrasing
 Summarizing
 Planning
Main patterns of writing
 Introduction
 Main bodies
 Conclusion
Essay Writing
Introduction

Paraphrasing of the question

• Change:
◦ Words
◦ Sentence structure
• Using concession
Changing the sentence structure
 Many students choose to attend
universities outside their home countries.

• The big amount of the graduates prefer

studying aside their homeland.

 Studyingaside their homeland is

preferable by the big amount of the
graduates.
Changing the Words
 Many students choose to attend universities
outside their home countries. Why do some
students study abroad? 

• (a lot of, plenty of, big amount of, graduates,

prefer, want, wish to, go, study, away, else where,
aside, homeland, birth place, motherland, native
country)

• The big amount of the graduates prefer studying

aside their homeland.
Using consession
• Many students choose to attend universities
outside their home countries.

• The big amount of the graduates prefer

studying aside their homeland.

 Although people would assume that inner

universities are primary choices, in my
opinion the big amount of the graduates
prefer studying aside their homeland.
Introduction
 Thesis statement
 Backround information on your topic: facts,
numbers, opinions, or history
 2/3 reasons

• Although people would assume that inner

universities are primary choices, in my opinion the
big amount of the graduates prefer studying aside
their homeland. Nowadays, almost sixty over a
hundred students go abroad for education. Thus,
students tend to study outside in order to learn
from better professors, use better laboratories or
facilities and enhance their background and
curriculum.
Bodies
 Body1
◦ Reason
◦ Explain the reason with facts, examples
◦ Remind us the reason
 Body2
 First, it is true that schools and universities of developed
countries have professors who are in constant
investigation and deal with up-to-date knowledge.
Students, who are looking to receive better knowledge,
decide to travel where they think they will find the
necessary information for their academic career.
Therefore, they travel to the professor’s nation and
enrolled in the university where he/she works.
Conclusion
 Review the main idea
 Review the reasons
 Tell the result or recommendation

 In conclusion, students are in the desire to search of

better things for their studies that make them better in
their academic career. Therefore, they decide to find
this suitable things in other countries in order to
increase their knowledge, have the support of better
labs for developing a suitable investigation and make a
better curriculum that helps them to their work career.