Scholarly Writing

Running Head: ARTICLE WRITING 3

Article writing

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Academic writing is a writing skill that is required throughout the life, it follows a particular tine and adheres to traditional conventions of punctuation, grammar and spelling, it has its set of rules and practices which may be organized around a formal order or structure in which to present ideas, in addition to ensuring that ideas are supported by author citations in the literature. Practitioner writing is writing for reward or it is a form of communication produced in workplace environment. Works produced with practitioner writing style allow practitioners such as lawyers, nurses, business people and others to make informed decisions. Practitioner writing involves the use of precise language to convey information in a way that is easily understood by its intended audience it is also directed to inform, persuade, instruct, stimulate debate or encourage action.

Academic writing rarely talk about tools but instead explore more conceptual, abstract or method-based topics because they know that tools come and go while practitioner writing on the other hand must stay current with tools because just about every job description filters out candidates based on the tools and technologies they own. Academics writing publish many insightful and seminal works for example, John Carroll (who was made honorary STC Fellow at the last STC Summit in Ohio) published works on minimalism in the late 80s that are still being discussed today while practitioner repeat what the academic writers are using in writing without correcting previous errors.

Citing a source means that you show within the body of your text that you took words, ideas, figure, and images from another place it is important cite because it shows the your reader you’ve done proper research by listing sources you used to get your information, it helps you to be a responsible scholar by giving credit to other researchers and acknowledging their ideas, it helps to avoid plagiarism by quoting words and ideas used by other authors lastly it allows your reader to track down the sources you used by citing them accurately in your paper by way of footnotes, a bibliography or reference list.

It is important to give credit to authors because it benefits your quality of being trusted and believed because they the reader will see that you have recognize the original author of the book and also avoid plagiarism, plagiarism is using the intellectual property of someone else without giving proper credit when you cite a context according using authors name it will help your work or research not appear plagiarised. It is ethical to credit an author’s so as it makes you recognize the origin of your findings in your writing.

Writing using APA format correctly is important because it gives you credibility as a writer to be taken serious by the readers because when your paper is perfect in APA format, your instructor or reviewer can look at your References page and see authoritative sources cited correctly because it proves that you fit to be an academia. It protects from plagiarism because when you use APA format in the reference you need to include in text citation which will show where your finding you are giving comes from hence your work will not appear to be plagiarised. It provides styles guidelines which explain what point of view if and voice to write from, how to address clarity and conciseness and how to select certain words and terms.

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 Deegan, ED.D., A. (2017). [online] Available at: http://G R A D U A T E W R I T I N G H A ND B O O K A L L I S O N D E E G A N , E D. D. 2 0 16 [Accessed 23 Oct. 2017].

Carroll, J. R., Mr. (2017, September 15). Managing Director at Summit Partners. Retrieved from http://sites.jcu.edu/newsroom/2017/09/15/john-carroll-university-receives-1-3-million-federal-grant-address-ohios-opioid-epidemic