What is Academic writing? There are many different writing styles and purposes for writing in the world of academic literature, usually contingent upon one another. However, there are several key elements all academic work should possess. Academic writing is generally classified was written work targeted at a very specific audience, with an assumed based of knowledge on the topics that will be discussed. Good academic writing proves an argument through reason and rational, making as few assumption as possible. The author should demonstrate a well rounded understanding of the argument on all fronts and build upon pre-existing knowledge through the use of credible sources or a substantial amount of tested personal research and analysis. Academic literature should also show an awareness of views opposite its own and be researched well enough to constantly support its claim against opposition.

 Although he may be best known for being Warren Buffett’s mentor, Ben Graham was also an extremely capable investor who was very success during his money management career. Known as “The Father of Value Investing”, Graham was also a professor at Columbia University when he authored The Intelligent Investor as a guide for those who traded securities and wanted in increase their return on invest.

The Intelligent Investor is for those who have already be introduced to the world of economics and finance. If you’re reading the Intelligent Investor it is assumed you are already familiar with the world of investing. A casual reader would quickly find themselves overwhelmed by financial terms, investment principles, and economic concepts (fair outside of common knowledge) mentioned that Graham expects the reader to be familiar with if they’ve picked up his book.

Graham’s strategies are based on logic and reasoning “An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting this requirements are speculation.” (Graham, 34) Graham’s ideas are based on thorough financial evaluations of a company’s books. His work is famous among investors, being one of the first investors to solely use financial analysis to successfully invest in the market.

 The investor’s primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at stable prices. Market movements are important to him in a practical sense, because they alternately create low price levels which he would be wise to buy and high price levels at which he certainly should refrain from buying and probably would be wise to sell. It is far from certain that the typical investor should regularly hold off buying until low market levels appear because this may involved a long wait, very likely the loss of income, and possibly missing of investment opportunities

In this except Graham’s makes a claim and offers multiple pieces of evidence in support of it. In addition to developing strategies based on carefully assessing the value of companies with a tried process, Graham also developed several mathematical formulas to help investors calculated the value of a stock based on various market shifter, which he explains in the Intelligent Investor.

Jesus the Jew is a Jewish Studies course offered at The City College of New York. While enrolled in the course I had to write a paper on the Jewishness of Jesus. My claim was “Jesus practiced and taught what he believed to be the proper version of Judaism. He had his own idea of how to remain faithful, while retaining traditional Jewish values.” (Williams)

I began my essay by pointing out that early judaism was focused around the covenant. The covenant can be used as a valid baseline for distinguishing early Judaism. Judaism had a strong influence on Jesus’s thoughts and message. During the time he was alive it is unlikely that he wouldn’t have been unaffected by the idea of covenant practice being that it was the dominant ideology of the time. Tom Holmen’s article Jesus, Judaism, and the Covenant aims to highlight Jesus and his Jewishness through his relationship with the covenant and covenant path searching. Path searching is the process of trying to figure out the best way to live in obedience with the covenant. Jews focusing on specific practices and beliefs in accordance with the covenant. Through covenant path searching jews discovered how to be faithful and adjusted their lives accordingly.

Irvin list The Understanding of Key Disciplinary Concepts and Strategies for Synthesizing, Analyzing, and Responding Critically to New Information as things that should be demonstrated in college level literary task.

“An analysis breaks a subject apart to study it closely, and from this inspection, ideas for writing emerge. When writing assignments call on you to analyze, they require you to identify the parts of the subject (parts of an ad, parts of a short story, parts of Hamlet’s character), and then show how these parts fit or don’t fit together to create some larger effect or meaning” (Irvin, 11)

Understanding the covenant and the relationship Jewish people had with it and understanding Jesus relationship with the convent then being able to connect the toward to gain an understand of jesus relationship with the jewish people/faith demonstrate bother. My essay is also now for a select group of people. My essay is also organized. I begin by making a claim, the paragraphs that follow all support this claim by tying together different pieces of evidence. My essay also cites several sources all of which are after the essay in an annotated bibliography.

“Academic prose is, ideally, impersonal, written by one disinterested mind for other equally disinterested minds. But, because it’s intended for a very small audience of hyper-knowledgeable, mutually acquainted specialists” (Rothman, 3) Both my essay Graham essay and mind are examples of this, being extremely focused and require background knowledge in order to fully understand…