As Bartholomae says, “Every time a student sits down to write for us, he has to invent the university for the occasion” and act as though “easily and comfortably one with his audience” (605-606) that is to say, a writer must adopt the discourse of academia, and become comfortable with the thought processes, vocabulary, and even sentence structures which characterize that discourse.Ĭritical Thinking: The authors present, as the first skill required to master to learn academic writing, critical thinking. Bartholomae would agree that students are asked to create an entirely new inventory of skills, and in some ways, a new identity, in order to be successful in academic writing. The authors say that a writer must “think like an academic, read like an academic, do research like an academic, and write like an academic.” (1) This echoes the ideas of composition scholar David Bartholomae in his article “Inventing the University”. Thus, in order to effectively communicate within that community, one must be able to speak its language, and know its standard gestures and conventions. Academic writing itself is the act of scholarly communication between members of a certain discourse community. The Challenges of Academic Writing: Greene and Lidinsky identify some of the difficulties of learning how to write effectively in an academic setting. Also discussed is the importance of recognizing writing as a process, and the recursive nature of revision. In an attempt to provide a simple explanation of this style of composition, they characterize it as consisting of a well-developed argument originated by the habits of mind promoting critical thinking and inquiry. They address the challenges that academic writing presents to people inexperienced with it. In the opening chapter of this text, Greene and Lidinsky lay out a broad overview of academic writing and thinking. Jump to Chapter 2 | Jump to Chapter 3 | Jump to Chapter 4Ĭhapter 1: Starting with Inquiry: Habits of Mind of Academic Writers
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