Tips to Improve Academic Writing

Safira Ainun Pratiwi, 1706038954, Faculty of Nursing

The academic essay is an essential skill that all people especially students
must develop. In order to master the academik writing skill, you should
communicate your ideas with grace clarity, and power (Luke, 2013). The
academic writing, in essence is putting forth a scholar’s ideas and research to our
academic peers. Improving academic writing skill is important to us as a nurses.
As a nurses at hospital, we will be expected have a good skill in writing. When we
have the good skill in academic writing, it will be easier to us to make
communication with other health workers. Where we will delegate our shift, invite
collaborations with other health personnel teams, and We have obligation to write
a right information and make sure that our information can be understood by other
people. Especially in medician things, if we are not write the right information, it
will influence for patient safety.

There were some tips that maybe you can use to improve your skill in
academic writing. The first tips is starting with good idea, it means that we should
choose our context first before we will make an essay. Your idea is an important
things that will guide you to make some draft. The second tips is having a clear,
concise, and well-constructed language. Our essay needs to be grammatically
sound and appropriately framed in order to be surmised by the intended audience
without an effort.

The third tips is you should Approaching the “So What”

Question. Academic Writing. That considered successful when it answers the “So
What” question or problem statement, best described by the following guidelines
to be answered in the text: (a) What is the issue? (b) What are the specific
questions surrounding the issue? (c) What is the context and background of the
issue? and (d) Why does the issue matter? If the work you produce answers these
questions and tackles the answers by paying attention to both higher- and lower-
order concerns, and adds new information (called the value-add) to make the
writing even more compelling, the paper will be successful (Hyland, 2000).

Then, the fourth tips is Using a Logical Progression of Ideas. Order your
paragraphs and evidence in a linear manner that makes sense through transitions,
signal phrases, and verbs that tell the reader if you agree or disagree with the
evidence you are providing. Each paragraph, and your paper as a whole, should
follow this format: (a) Introduce the main idea that will be discussed, (b) Provide
the evidence used to prove your argument, and (c) Outline the significance of the
evidence you have provided (Hyland, 2000).

The Fifth tips is Writing Clearly and Directly. Write with a linear
progression of ideas. Use strong verbs, rather than nominalizations or adverbs. For
example, a nominalization would be to write “raise an obstacle” rather than to use
the verb “to obstruct” or the nominalization “give assistance” rather than “to
assist.” The verb is always better and more direct. Likewise, use strong verbs,
such as “to speed,” rather than “to drive quickly,” in which the adverb modifies a
weaker verb.

So we can conclude that academic writing is important. So, as a student

we have to know about how to improve academic writing skill. We should
improve it because academic writing is different with other writing’s skill. Theres
many other tips that you can use to improve your academic writing. And you have
to know that academic writing will make your writing skill improve too.
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