Essay Writing

Tips
 Module 2:
Writing for Academic Purposes

What is Writing for

Academic Purpose?
Session 2.1 What is writing for academic
purposes?
Objective: By the end of this session, the student
teachers will be able to
 Explainthe importance of writing for academic
purposes
 Identify essay writing conventions
 Demonstrate their understanding of academic
writing conventions by completing details of a
sample academic text using a writing frame
Activity 1. Questions to answer
Key questions that will help us understand the content.
Answer them as precisely as you can.
 What is writing for academic purposes?
 Why is writing for academic purposes important?
 Which writing conventions are you more familiar with?
 What would be some challenges you expect to encounter
as a student teacher?

 Present your answers in class.

Students responses:
It’sadvance writing.
For information purposes
Be familiar with
punctuations ,Grammar and
spellings.
Confirm

Academic writing could mean:

 Writing clearly
 Writing with focus, consciousness, and concisely
 Writing is well structured
 When writing is backed up by evidence
Its purpose
To inform

To explain

To narrate

To persuade

To aid readers understanding

Explore an idea,

To express feelings

To have a formal tone and style

But does not have to be too complex or require longer
sentences and complicated vocabulary
Importance
assess knowledge
skills.

Proof for specific

experimental result
when published.

helps learning new

information

clarifies thoughts

identifies gaps in
knowledge or
understanding.
Types of academic writings

 Descriptive- characterized with descriptions of…

 Expository- requires investigation of ideas,
collect and evaluate facts/evidences that
supports
 Persuasive-known also as argumentative to
persuade
 Narrative-basically about telling a story.
Writing Features
Activity
Research to identify the structural and Language features and complete the table

Type of Writing Structural feature Language feature

Persuasive/ • Introductory paragraph rhetorical questions, statistics,

• Thesis statement exaggerations, emotive
Argumentative • Body paragraph language, repetition, facts,
• Conclusion opinions, use of 3rd person
personal pronouns
Exposition

Descriptive

Narrative