There are many essay formats used in academic writing. ... Harvard format of writing is also referred to as the Author- Date format of referencing and writing. ... The author-date form of referencing gives instant clues on the source that has been used. ... In Chicago, both bibliography and notes are used but they both serve a different purpose. ... One advantage of using this style unlike the author-date style is that less space is required for the in-text citation. ...

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Whether it is an essay, an email, or a poem, each form of writing has an audience and a purpose. ... At times I feel the author needs to spell it out for readers, but that's beside the point. ... The author does specific things to appeal to their audience and elicit a certain response. ... Spencer's purpose in writing is to describe the narrator's lover as perfect in comparison. ... Today even with new forms of technology and varieties of writing, from texting to tweeting, audience and purpose are the main influence in how someone presents their writing. ...

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I am writing this to the Chair of the English Department to recommend that the book, Everyone's An Author, be the required textbook for all English 101 classes. As an English 101 student, I have found Everyone's An Author to be a very helpful resource when issues came about with writing. ... The main purpose of the book is to help writers by offering explanations and examples of different ideas in writing. ... These boxes serve the purpose of giving readers alternate readings and examples to look at to further understand the style of writing they are looking for. ... Everyone's ...

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My school experience of writing in English could certainly not be regarded as sufficient. ... Although this kind of writing has very strict rules and makes serious demands on a writer, most of the rules refer to the form or to the organization of ideas, leaving the author with the freedom of thoughts, ideas, and concepts. ... Furthermore, the purpose of academic writing is also very different from other types of writing. In literary or journalistic writing, the purpose is to entertain or inform, whereas in academic writing the purpose is most often to explain, to persuade or convince the audie...

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Dumville's purpose in writing serves to derive the fundamental differences between the two styles. ... Kellogg's purpose serves to abolish the notion that all of the Vikings were bloodthirsty savages. ... Although both works aim to inform readers, the author's approach this task with differing tones. ... The apparent differences between the two authors' styles of writing, including their tones, diction, and syntax, actively demonstrate the authors' intended audiences. Dumville's critical and magisterial tone suggests he's writing for a specialist audience, ...

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Joyce is not undeserving of this attention however, his brilliant writing style and sense of narrative voice are what makes him remain so popular to this day. It can be observed in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man that James Joyce changes his narrative voice and style of writing throughout the book. In the first chapter, when Stephen is still very young at Conglowes College, the book is narrated in a stream of consciousness, without well structured paragraphs or a clear purpose to some statements. ... This childlike writing style does make the book feel more realistic, but it is not ...

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Each author has a unique way of talking and describing the past, but all three authors use the past with a common obejective. Like every writer, Boyarin, Gould, and Abu-Lughod have a purpose for writing about the past. ... The purpose of this writing style is to allow the reader to understand the different changes throughout time that shaped who he is and the society in which he lives. Gould, in the other hand, has a different purpose. ... Although each writer has a different purpose, their objectives are achieved by writing about the past and explaining the events that led to the present...

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A good abstract is accurate (correctly reflects the purpose and content of the paper), self-contained (defines abbreviations, unique and key terms), and concise and specific (not longer than 120 words). ... Writing Style Whether using a single word, thought, sentence or paragraph, writing must be orderly. ... When writing always use the author(s) first, followed by the year of publication, and past tense form of the verb. ... Reference Citations Within the Text When writing your paper, authors want to document their work throughout the paper by citing the author and date of his/her research ...

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In English 108, I step into a higher level of writing. ... As a result, I got lost on the point that the author wants to deliver, especially for long stories. However, after studying and practicing how to identify and analyze the audience of an essay, the purpose the author wanted to appeal to his or her audience and how to use strategies about ethos, logos and pathos, I understand that rhetorical situations exists everywhere in our life. ... The most important feature a writer should have is writing in a creative way rather than writing with good organization. ... In the third essay, I had to...

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The famous Renaissance author, courtier, and father of deductive reasoning, Sir Francis Bacon, once said, "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." ... This way, other employees are aware of the drug's purpose and the progress that is being made throughout its development. ... A description is given of the purpose of each document. ... Their purpose is to convey the basic and pertinent principles of the drug in writing to many others. ... Patients are the basis of all research trials, so it is important that their purpose and function be conve...

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In each case, the author has been able to write freely without being tied down to a certain criteria or so-called rubric. ... I also believe that an opinionated piece of writing can very well be considered good writing. ... In retrospect, it is also good to keep an open mind and not let opinion cloud the purpose of the work. ... For example, I cannot think of a text that I have had to write a paper over that didn't have the author's opinion in it. If an author can state his or her opinion in the text that I have to write over, it would only be fair that I could state my opinion in re...

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Writing is a mysterious art. ... Despite literature having such a big effect on peoples life no one really knows for sure how to write anything effectively that will serve its purpose as literature. ... Life experience plays a major part in writing for Orwell. ... Though he retains his experience in writing. ... -(Anne Lamott, p.47) Lamotts writing does not refer to her any early writing experience, but if this one is any indication, she, despite being an excellent author, is rather intimated by writing. ...

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In your first paragraph you introduce the topic of your paper and describe your purpose. ... Citations should be used when using "ideas" or "direct quotes" from authors. ... When paraphrasing the author's ideas, page numbers do not need to be included. ... Notice in the first citation the names of authors are included; then in subsequent references with three or more authors et al., is used. ... Good luck and happy scholarly APA writing....

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To expand their horizons, and attempt to build personal morals, a creative writing class is key. Even if it serves no other purpose than to allow them to view other cultures, opinions, and experiences through writing, it would still be an opportunity to enrich a student's mind through writing. ... The skills that many in this group lacks are basic writing skills. ... This creative writing class would force emphasis on writing and strengthen students" backgrounds in it. ... There is something to be said for anyone who strives to write at a higher level similar to the examples set by th...

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Depending on the author, whether you are Herodotus, Ptolemy, Machiavelli, or Van Ranke, history has always been written from the perception of the author who has written it. ... It would not be until the Medieval period that Herodotus" and Thucydides" purposes of writing history would take a turn to a more religious bias. ... These two authors move away from writing for the church and direct their writing towards more secular aims. ... Hobbes himself continues in the political history genre by writing for the purpose of looking into governments critically, and warning against wrong forms of...

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There are three main ways in which these two authors differed in their writing styles. ... Moreover their very purposes for writing are different. ... One key difference in the writing style was each author's tone. ... The major difference between the two authors, is their purpose. ... Wilde is writing his piece with the purpose of entertaining. ...

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Discuss the purpose of fairy tales for a contemporary audience. ... Tolkien, the author, understands a fairy tale to be: one which touches on or uses Faërie, whatever its own main purpose may be: satire, adventure, morality, fantasy. ... More writers chose to take up the challenge of writing in this style, and many simply developed different versions of pre existing fairy tales. ... Walter Crane, the author, also illustrated his sister's English translation of the Grimm tales. ... messages of classic fairy tales, as her reason for writing. ...

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PURPOSE The purpose of the book is stated as follows: "COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN ENGLISH: Improving Study, Thinking, Reading and Writing Skills is primarily written to develop and hone the study, thinking, reading and writing skills of the students for effective communication." Considering this purpose, the content of the book is aligned at achieving the said purpose. ... Chapter 5 deals with composition writing. ... AUTHOR The principal author of the book is Professor Lilian S. ... There are also six persons who co-authored the book. ...

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He went into detail on how Hemingway was not creative in writing this book compared to Anderson. ... I guess that is the purpose of a criticism, to state the faults of a book. I think Hemingway is an excellent author with great skill. ... Overall, he is an excellent author and I would recommend Ernest Hemingway to anyone willing to enrich his or her knowledge in English. ...

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Introduction Academic writing is often more abstract and technical than our daily writing. ... In a sense, writing in concrete and non- technical language will make the writing more accessible to a larger audience. Excluding a certain segment of the audience that would otherwise be able to read and understand an important and valuable academic discourse just because of the lack of language used that is too abstract and technical would defeat the purpose of a carrying out a particular academic discourse. ... This use of language seems particularly prominent in the writing of beginners in any...

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These works were not produced at the same time, or in the same time period, therefore, each work had its own audience and purpose. ... Knowing this simple background of both works can already create predictions of comparisons and differences in the writing expected from each author in what they wanted to convey to their specific audiences and how different the perspectives can be, as well as influence the purpose of their writing. ... When the audience is aware that the author is an 'historian' writing of the Persian War, to include events leading up to the war, it is natural to exp...

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Today's average reader does not usually stop to ponder the gender of an author and what impact a male or female hand may have on a body of literature. However, if analyzed closely, any given text may expose a distinct structural element associated with the author's gender. ... Though the tendency to employ a rambling poetic composition could be used to characterize the structure of a woman's writing, the results convey purpose and deliver an authentic thought process for the characters in their stories. ...

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it seems clear that students from different cultures often bring different purposes to their thinking and learning. These different purposes produce different results, for example in the way the students respond to an essay topic, a problem or controversial piece of research. ... Her first attempt at writing the opening chapters of her thesis was severely criticized by her supervisor because it was "merely descriptive". In the first chapter the student had recounted the personal life of the author she was studying. ... The job of the literary critic, she explained, is to make the life and ...

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Irving has the utilitarian purpose of explaining the importance of honor, truth, and justice in daily life. ... "Traits of Indian Character" has the purpose of leading the reader to a deeper meditation on what justice truly is and how impunity shapes society. ... Since several of his sketches are narratives of his travel around England, Irving is objective when writing about historical and architectural facts. ... He goes on to name various authors and a fact that distinguish them from the rest. ... Throughout the sketch, Irving makes a point in writing about his beliefs towards literature an...

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Lott is a well-respected author, having published over seventy articles in academic journals. ... He clearly identifies the problem and purpose of his book through the title, which states the connection between guns and crime, the two variables that are investigated throughout the book. ... Lott's writing style is simple and easily understood by the reader but the content is very technical and sophisticated in it's presentation. His writing technique allows for a persuasive and logical flow that convinces the reader of the hypothesis. ... The references used by the author are curr...

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