Academic Writing Wacky

Academic writing is generic and somewhat faceless. This facelessness is academic writing is good. The readers/graders have to be objective in a broad look at academic writing as a whole, not incorporating bias's and opinions. The good news on writing a peice that won't be judged on personality and cultural taboos leave a lot of freedom to be creative. Also, academic writing is bad because the goals and expectations that confine it are boring and tedious. Generic academic writing is easily skipped if it doesn't have something as simple as a good title or opening sentence. Academic writing for generic purposes like grades arn't suppose to be novels or make someone an acclaimed writer overnight. The goals in the academic writers catolgue suggest meeting minimum expectations for the institutions i.e. UWM ideals on what is good and not good for english writing. The assignments that we've been given this semester are confusing and at the core the same thing over and over. The assignments want coherence, argumentation for a subject and genericness, definition of genres, and more genre motonoy. However, the assignments if done correctly can meet far beyond the goals and expectations of UWM while still being original. I wish I didn't have to write generic writing at all, I know I probaly need this class so my papers for other classes and master thesis won't be melodramatic and incoherent to the regulations of the coarse reader. I would like to see more inventiveness and originality in the assignments and if possible more detail on the goals, possibly with examples. Academic writing is just one of those painful things we've got to get through like a math class, we probably won't use it for whatever we end up doing as a profession, but its necessary.