What is “Academic” Writing?
- Carroll, Lee Ann. Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002. Print.
- Basically giving pin points of what exactly writing is when you get to college. Several myths that you might think are true about writing. It also gives you a way on how to analyze writing and what exactly ‘analyze’ means.
- Coming into college, writing seems much more harder because you might feel like you have to meet some sort of expectation in college. Theres always room for improvement an this article talks about the complications of writing and what you need to know, somewhat puts a beginner into college at ease.
Why is Academic Writing So Academic?
- Rothman, Joshua. “Why Is Academic Writing So Academic?” The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 18 June 2017, www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-is-academic-writing-so-academic. Accessed 24 Sept. 2017.
- This article is talking about how academic writing is part of a system by professors. Seems to be saying that in journalism, theres far more people that you have to write for. In academics, you write for professors. Professors generate traffic in academics and the people generate the traffic of popularity in journalism. In academic writing the target is smaller, so pleasing one person will do you the trick rather than trying to please a larger group of audience.
- I guess it is a bit odd that academic writing can sometimes be like journalism writing. Right now I’m down academic writing, but it’s on a blog so its somewhat of journalism and academic. He says in the article that the professors shape academic writing , so does that mean if professors begin to get more tech savvy, academic writing will portray to journalism writing ?
Why I Write
- Rothman, Joshua. “Why Is Academic Writing So Academic?” The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 18 June 2017, www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-is-academic-writing-so-academic. Accessed 24 Sept. 2017.
- the author wrote as a child but did not really begin to punish until he was older. He wrote about current events such as the Spanish American War. He wrote a lot of stuff as a kid just for fun. So he says that there are essentially four motives of writing: Sheer Egoism, Aesthetic Enthusiasm, Historical Impulse, and Political Purpose.
- It seems to me that the author writes for political purpose and aesthetic egoism. He wrote against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism. Basically what I’m getting from reading this short story is that when he was younger he wrote things that were amusing to him, for example the poem about the tiger and the play. As he got older, he began to write about what was going on around him. He seems to be a political writer and likes to write about what is going on in society. It is kind of confusing how he says writers are selfish ad vain, considering he is a writer himself.