what is academia

Like the upper bureaucracy, academia has also expanded rapidly in recent decades.
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• their vocabulary and expressions
• the types of text used (for instance essays, reports, research articles or summaries)
• how these texts are structured and organised.

The ability to write in an academic style is something you develop as part of your university study. It is difficult to give overall ‘rules’ on the way to write for a university course, as academic subjects vary in

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Academic writing is clear, concise, focussed, structured and backed up by evidence. Its purpose is to aid the reader’s understanding.
Each subject discipline will have certain writing conventions, vocabulary and types of discourse that you will become familiar with over the course of your degree. However, there are some general characteristics of academic writing that are relevant across all disciplines.

MIT will ask much of you. Occasionally, you may feel overwhelmed by the amount of work you need to accomplish. You may be short of time, working on several assignments due the same day, or preparing for qualifying exams or your thesis presentation. The pressure can be intense. On the Working Under Pressure page, we suggest resources to help you manage your workload and prevent yourself from becoming overwhelmed. However, no matter what level of stress you may find yourself under, MIT expects you to approach your work with honesty and integrity.
Fundamental to the academic work you do at MIT is an expectation that you will make choices that reflect integrity and responsible behavior.

This stance, claim, or take is your contribution to the current conversation on your topic and provides your readers with a position, perspective, and/or point of view on your topic.
An academic argument is your stance, your claim, or your take on your topic.

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References:

http://www.academiccareer.manchester.ac.uk/about/do/
http://help.open.ac.uk/what-is-academic-english
http://www.openacademia.net/
http://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/14011/writing/106/academic_writing
http://integrity.mit.edu/
http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/writingprocess/arguments
http://www.pmi.org/learning/academic-research/network
http://apastyle.apa.org/learn/faqs/web-page-no-author