How does using a formal writing will help me a more effective academic paper?

Answer 1

Yes, because it's an accepted practise.

It's like wearing a cap and gown for graduation. It's an accepted practise. It's like English Judges wearing wigs.

Formal writing includes superscript (small numbers above the end of a sentence or word) numbering that leads to a bibilography citation at the back of the paper that shows your source for the information.

Academic writing ALWAYS shows sources, even EINSTEIN did this in his theories. He'd say "Lorentz showed..." and then he'd cite Dr. Lorentz's work.

This is how you prove your point.

It's done in LAW to. CITATIONS.

You CITE a legal case similar to yours to justify something.

For example, when copyrights first happened there was NO case law on this topic, so when multiple authors got into disputes over a song or a play or a book the first lawyers and judges used Real Property citations, the most classic being two roomates who buy a house together and have a fight and draw a line down the middle and say "the bathroom is in my half, you can't use it" WRONG, courts decided that entry ways, the kitchen, the heating, the bathroom were COMMON areas and indivisible.

Thus came the concept of joint tenants in common. Each owns and INDIVISIBLE part of the song or story or book.

To render this decision the JUDGE makes a citation from law.

Then other judges have to decide if that judge read the deicision properly using contrary citations.

So, as an ACADEMIC author it is YOUR job to PROVE to YOUR READER you aren't just making it all up, but quoting a QUALIFIED SOURCE.

Now, qualified sources are NOT always correct. That is your job to undo when you can PROVE something to the contrary.

When I was reseraching a book on women filmmakers I wrote to one who wrote me back and told me ALL the history books got her academic credentials WRONG and asked if I would correct this error.

See, most ACADEMIC works based themselves on OTHER ACADEMIC works and NOT IMPERICAL DATA.

BUT to present NEW and DIFFERENT imperical data you ahve to back it up with reference sources.

So, as an example, I wrote a piece that conflicts with commonly held popular thinking of what a great General Washington was and how much furvor there was for the National Interest in the REvolutionary war.

My citations came from the Medical Officer's writings who was in General Washington's charge at Valley Forge, who talked about all the deserters, all the people who left the moment they "hitch" was up, they just upped and walked out on Washington, legally, because their 2 year contract was up. He talked about the bad food and what people termed that food. He talked about the losed the faced in battle.

It was not this wonderful picture of staged events we see or what we learn in High School or even College level American history.

My citations refer back to him and other documentations and to other critical authors.

You have to do this to prove your thesis or point of contention.

This is esepcially vital when you take a contrary point of view.

Contrary points of view are necessary for the understanding of history.

I lived through President Nixon and Watergate, you didn't. I was a subscriber to both Newsweek and Time through that era and GOT SICK TO DEATH of it, just like I'm sick to death of hearinga bout how many died in IRaq today.

I watched Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley go to blows on national TV

I can take on many writers on their painting of history from my own persective and reading events of the day and age.

But I have to go back and find other quotes and citations to make my point be VALID.

Otherwise it's EDITORIALIZING, which is simply rendering an opinion.

Academic papers can be rhetorical if there's a reason, but you have to present evidence to back up your rhetoric.

So, 1" margins, double space, single sided, with numbered citations and a bilography.

I knew a puppeteer who TAUGHT college puppetry who was going for her MASTERS and had problems because she WROTE this book for her project in Callegraphy with doodles and drawings on the side and the ADVISOR rejected it and insisted she follow standard format.

Which, by the way, is done because an instructioin MAY sumbit it for publication and if it's a thesis it will be copied and bound and go on file in your college library as part of the collection.

Answer 2

Formal writing makes it much more likely that the person reading your paper will take you seriously. If you go to a doctor with a really bad headache, you expect an informed opinion. If the doctor starts out with, "Well, like maybe you just need to chill for a few and then if it gets worse get back to me and we'll throw some pills your way!" you will most likely get a second opinion, even if it was good advice. (you might even go so far as to report that doctor for unprofessional conduct) I might even suggest that you go beyond formal writing and use active phrases. Always connect an action to a person. Nothing ever happens on it's own and it confuses the reader when the writer suggests that it does. Never use your own authority if you can help it. If you have a great original idea, look it up and find the most important person who also thought of it that you can find. The more credit you give others, the more authority you will borrow from them. This also solves another problem. All of a sudden you have absolutely no difficulty finding references!

The most direct example I can think of however, is that of a parent talking to a kid who is in a lot of trouble. What kind of language does that parent use? What is the effect? If the parent is lenient and informal is the kid likely to get the message? When you really want to say something only once, get your point across, and be believed (i.e. taken seriously) use formal language. It's a real time saver, grade grabber, and reputation maker.

Answer 3

Hi,
Here has a formal sample for writing academic papers.Hope that helps you .
Do the research and analysis.
Brainstorm a thesis.
Make an outline.
Develop your introduction.
Build the body.
End with a strong conclusion.
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