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writing. In addition this covers topics such as précis writing, which is concerned with abstracting the main points of an essay, a report or a book. Similar to précis writing is the writing of summaries, which is also concerned with the condensation of information. In a basic writing book or course, students are also presented with topics such as personal letters and notes, memos and reports, business letters, certificates, public notices, and curriculum vitae, which are needed in everyday life.
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Chapter 2
Basic Writing and Academic Writing
2.1 Introduction
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In this chapter we will distinguish between two types of writing that you may encounter in your studies at university or college. The first type is called basic writing or practical writing, and the other type is academic writing. These two types of writing belong to different genre types and reflect the level of difficulties. Basic writing is everyday writing and all of us do it, while academic writing is only required in an academic environment.
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Within the professional writing types, we can identify technical writing and academic writing. Technical writing is concerned with practice-based, problem-oriented or application-based research and it is usually written by and for engineers or practitioners for a pragmatic reason. Academic writing, on the other hand, is usually based on original
The characteristics of and the differences between different types of essay, e.g. narration, description, exposition, argumentation, will also be part of the content of basic
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The purpose of basic writing is to help students learn to write well for everyday purposes. The focus will be on general writing skills and strategies. In terms of writing skills, students are taught sentence writing skills, paragraph writing skills, the choice of diction and sentence type, and the process of composing an essay. In sentence writing, correctness and effectiveness of sentences, and cohesion of sentences are emphasized, while in paragraph writing the focus is on the development of the paragraph, paragraph unity, the topic sentence, and paragraph coherence. The choice of diction and sentence type is concerned with the use of words and expressions, and the use of figurative and metaphorical language. The process of writing an essay involves planning, pre-writing, writing, revising, editing, and the final submission, just as in the case of academic writing.
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National Medical Journal of China (《中华医学杂志》). As is expected, writing for a popular magazine and writing for a professional journal have similarities and differences. One of the similarities is that both types of writing need basic writing skills and strategies. A majory have two different groups of target readers, i.e. a popular magazine is for the common people, the laymen, whereas a professional journal is for those in a profession. Thus, theoretically speaking, anyone can read a popular magazine such as the Family Doctor, but only those in a medical profession would read journals such as National Medical Journal of China.
As its name suggests, basic writing is concerned with using some basic skills in a language. Using a word correctly and appropriately, choosing an effective expression, sentence type or clause structure, and writing a coherent paragraph with the appropriate cohesive ties are all important components of basic writing. The above skills and strategies also benefit academic writing.
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Academic writing is a type of writing that is concerned with academic research in one way or another. In general terms, we can distinguish between fictional writing and non-fictional writing. In fictional writing, we can identify types of writing such as writing poems, writing essays and writing novels, and these are different in a number of ways, i.e. their form and the genre they belong to. This usually does not have anything to do with the topic as we can discuss the topic of happiness or death in a poem, in an essay, or in a novel.