Features of Academic Writing
The register and tone are used to achieve this feature of academic and professional writing
Formality
A type of plagiarism where the one who plagiarized makes the writer non existing by failing to give due credits to his/her work.
Ghost Writer
A piece of academic writing that aims to explain a concept in a specific discipline
Essay
It explains two ideas/objects by showing their similarities and differences.
Comparison/Contrast
In academic writing, the writer should avoids expressing personal opinions about the subject matter and resorts to facts in presenting evidence.
Objectivity
The writer lifts the major parts and ideas from his/her own previous work, say a literary analysis of a novel back in high school, and turns it in as a new requirement for a new course.
The Self-Stealer
A shorter piece of research, either individual or groupwork, with the topic chosen by the student(s)
Paper
It uses vivid details to allow the readers to visualize the subject and get the dominant impression of the text.
Description
The writer cites the author’s name but fails to include pertinent information on the location of the reference material, which should be correctly organized in the references bibliography, or works cited page(s)
The Forgotten Footnote
Any type of academic and professional writing generally follows an organized _________ and format, which guides the readers in understanding the text.
Structure
It appears to be a collage of ideas taken from various sources with very minimal or insignificant changes in the wording and sentence structure.
The Potluck Paper
A lengthy piece of writing normally done by a student often for a higher degree on a topic chosen by the student and approved by the instructor.
Thesis/Dissertation
It explores a subject matter fully by presenting both denotation and connotation and by distinguishing the subject from other topics to clearly draw the distinction
Definition
The writer cites a source properly, with the date of publication and even page number or paragraph number where it appears but fails to put quotation marks to mark ideas or phrases lifted word for word from the source.
The Too-Perfect Paraphrase
Practicing caution in the use of language is important in academic and professional writing to distinguish between facts and claims
Hedging
A type of plagiarism that occurs because the writer has retained the major content of a single source and only slightly changed some key words and phrases.
An official workplace document that presents and analyzes data to provide information and recommendations.
Report
It shows how to do something or how something works by analyzing and presenting the steps in an orderly sequence.
Process analysis
The writer cites all sources, paraphrases, and summarizes ideas, and uses direct quotes correctly, but the output contains almost no original idea or insights.
The Resourceful Citer
Enumerate the four (4) features of academic and professional writing
Formality, Objectivity, Structure, Hedging
Enumerate the four (4) subtypes of the first major type of plagiarism
The ghost writer, the potluck paper, the poor disguise and the self stealer.
An inter-office document distributed to inform employees, request data, give responses, confirm decisions, and provide directions.
Memorandum
It works by clustering objects, people, or events based on their similarities and characteristics thus forming categories.
Classification
Enumerate the three (3) subtypes of the second major type of plagiarism
The forgotten footnote, the too-perfect paraphrase, the resourceful citer