Academic Writing

  Name               : Meillita Puan Maharani ID Students’   : 2223200081 Class               : 4A Course             : Academic Writing Reflective Writing 9             Plagiarism in essays and research papers is becoming more common, as evidenced by incidents and anecdotal evidence. According to Applebome (1997), term papers for sale are abounding on the internet. Howard (1995), presumably in response to the pervasiveness of plagiarism in academic writing programs at American institutions, offers a case for a positive view of inexperienced writers' "patchwriting" skills. Plagiarism, defined as the use of a source text's language and/or ideas without attribution, is not a problem unique to NNS English learners in academi...

  Name               : Meillita Puan Maharani ID Students’   : 2223200081 Class               : 4A Course             : Academic Writing Reflective Writing 8             The argument about we should pursue an English degree to be more appealing to employers as shown by the continued drop in enrollment in English degree programs was not properly motivating students. Data from Humanities Indicators, A Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joins the content from the 2018 ADE study, confirming that the number of people obtaining English degrees has fluctuated over decades. Students may believe that a communications degree is more applicable to a professional context or provides more practical skills than what ...

  Name               : Meillita Puan Maharani ID Students’   : 2223200081 Class               : 4A Course             : Academic Writing Reflective writing 7             One of the most significant language skills is writing. It is very important for expressing one's ideas, opinions, feelings, and attitudes. People can share their opinions, and feelings, and persuade and convert others by writing. There are several writing styles, extending from formal to informal. There are numerous explanations for why writing should be included in a second or foreign language curriculum. Writing problems in students can be caused by a variety of environments. One of the reasons for the difficulty could be the difficulty of the wri...

  Name: Meillita Puan Maharani ID Students’: 2223200081 Class: 4A Course: Academic Writing Reflective Journal 6             The sixth meeting of Academic Writing took place on Thursday, March 31. This meeting was replaced with a Research Talk organized by the International Office of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa with speaker Mr. Christianus I Wayan Eka Budhiartha from Sampoerna University. The topic of this Research Talk is "Vocabulary Profile and Lexical Bundles of EFL Academic Writing: A Corpus-based Study in English Teaching.             Here is the material presented by the speaker that I got. The vocabulary study has three differences in research, research is lexical knowledge, literacy, and metalinguistics awareness.             Formulaic language is defined as a set of words that are "stored and recovered fully from memory at the ...

Name: Meillita Puan Maharani ID Students’: 2223200081 Class: 4A Course: Academic Writing Reflective journal 5            The fifth meeting of Academic Writing took place on Thursday, March 24 at this meeting to discuss formal and informal writing. What is formal writing, what is informal, what are the characteristics of these two types, examples of each type, etc? First, what is academic writing? Academic writing skills involve strong structure, excellent grammar, and a consistent stylistic approach. The characteristics contain a formal tone, use of third-person rather than first-person perspective, clear focus on the issue or topic rather than the author’s view, and precise word choice. Have a stable presentation of reasons why the assumptions of other writers may be known or may need to be treated with caution. Have a clear presentation of your mark and argument, leading to your conclusion. Have recognition of the limitations in your evidence,...

Name: Meillita Puan Maharani  ID Students': 2223200081 Class: 4A Course: Academic Writing             Gender equality is the view in which both men and women are treated equally, are not distinguished, can receive equal rights and obligations, and can have equal opportunities. But sometimes women are always considered to be under men, this is also commonly found around me, especially those who live in the village. They still adhere to the thought that women do not need high school because in the end women will serve their husbands and take care of children. In fact, women can also go to high school to achieve their goals, make their own money, and get married.             The main reason there is still discrimination against gender that mainly occurs in women is that there is still a patriarchal culture in the mindset of society. This patriarchal culture teaches that me...