Library Guides: Academic Writing: The Writing Process

Types of Academic Writing

Source:
What is Academic Writing? (and Other Burning Questions About It)

The Writing Process

Prewriting is the initial step in the writing process, which includes generating ideas, organizing them, and creating an outline. This stage helps to improve the general organization and efficiency of your writing.

Prewriting involves

Brainstorming: Identifies the main ideas for the writing.
Preliminary Research: Captures key concepts of the topic. (Related Guides: How to Search for Library Materials)
Warm-up Writing Task: Boost creativity and help you outline your writing

Tips on prewritting:

Credo Reference - How to Select a Topic

Credo Reference - What To Do When Your Topic is Too Broad

Credo Reference - Using Pre-Research to Understand Your Topic

Prewriting

Learn about steps to take before writing a paper to make the process smoother.

Academic Writer

By carefully planning the framework of your writing, you can improve the organization of your ideas and arguments.

Draft an outline

to provide a logical structure to convey information effectively
to help you work out the main ideas you want to focus on and how you’ll organize them
with bullet points or numbering to make your structure clear at a glance

Tips on drafting an outline:

Purdue Online Writing Lab - Why and How to Create a Useful Outline

Purdue Online Writing Lab - Types of Outlines and Samples

Drafting

Learn tips to confidently tackle your rough draft and experience a smoother writing process.

Academic Writer

Revising is necessary to enhance the quality of writing. This is to ensure that the text is well-organized.

Make considerable improvements by

rearranging paragraphs
removing redundant sections
bringing additional content
etc.

Editing and proofreading are important to improve sentence structure and clarity.

When proofreading

ensure the language is succinct, clear, and grammatically right
look out for replication, confusing and redundancy wording
look out for typos, missing words, confused word choices, punctuation errors, and missing or excess spaces
use a grammar checker but also give a manual check after using
ensure consistent writing style, e.g. American or British spellings, numerals vs. words, and proper capitalization of titles and headings.
follow specific standards for formatting and citations

Revising, Editing, and Proofreading

Learn how to successfully revise, edit, and proofread your draft so you can confidently submit a polished paper.

Academic Writer

Useful Databases

Academic Writer
Designed to support teaching and learning of academic writing in APA style, it features full integration of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and hundreds of learning objects, including instructional videos, quizzes, samples, and more.
為支援撰寫學術文獻和運用APA 規範及促進教學而設。提供連結至美國心理協會出版手冊(Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association) 的片段，以及教學影片、自我評測、範文等數百樣學習工具。
Credo Philosophy Essentials Collection
Allows you to cross-search of full text articles from 14 titles of reference e-books which cover a full range of philosophy subjects.
提供一站式全文檢素，幫助讀者從14套涵蓋哲學不同領域的參考書中找到所需要的資料。

Academic Writing: The Writing Process

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