Since you are in an academic reading and writing class, you will have some ideas about this question. As you are reading something, why do you think the writer wrote it? And when you write things, such as the paragraph last week, why do you write them?
After, or before, you share your ideas about Law's ideas, you might like to leave a comment here as well. And since this is a response writing, please feel free to respond as widely as you wish. For example, as I was writing the above, I also wondered how our reasons for academic writing might differ from why we write other things. Obviously, my reason for writing an email to my mother is not the same as my reason for writing a paragraph about the choice of the painter Vincent van Gogh's Ward in the Hospital in Arles (1889) as the opener image for a chapter about abnormal psychology, and those different reasons probably also influence the style of the writing.
Hello, peter
ReplyDeleteWhen I read your article, it makes me funny in myself. I’m studying in academic reading and writing but I don’t know how to use it in daily life. I think it just can help me in any test because I agree with you said when I want to contact my friends or my parents. I have to use simple English and simple vocabulary, so I have to find my really answer continuously. If I found it I’ll tell you
Krich,
ReplyDeleteI don't write academic essays for exams, and I don't think Stephen Law does either, at least not since he stopped being a student.
Outside of exams, in what situation might you want to write, if not an essay, at least in an academic style? Why?
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