Guidelines+for+academic+writing

Academic Writing: Academic writing is more formal than personal writing. A formal structure begins with an introductory paragraph that includes a thesis statement. Then each paragraph gives more explanation for the thesis statement.

A thesis statement guides an essay; a topic sentence guides a paragraph. Until you have confidence as a writer, you should be sure you have a thesis sentence for your paper and topic sentences for each paragraph.

You want to be organized, right??

Think about an inverted triangle:

In our academic writing, we will avoid personal pronouns and casual language. That does not mean you won't focus on style and voice!