The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Academic Writing...

Well academic writing is exactly what it states, its academic and that word alone can make it seem like a chore. The goals suggest that the writing should be well thought out and a minimum of 5 paragraphs, with correct spelling, quotations to back up your information from whatever source you are using.

The assignments suggest that it should be what is asked in the prompt and if you are answering those questions that the prompt asks with the minimal goals from what standard academic writing should be.

Now the course reader suggests the goals and outcomes for both papers we write in this class, I use the word suggest loosely here because there doesn't seem to be any wiggle room on these goals. Also these goals can be really confusing because one might not understand what they are asking since most of them are up to interpretation and that can leave the student in the dark on how they should formulate their papers.

I wish the goals would be straight forward and not hide behind the language they are written in. If they were straight forward you wouldn't have as many issues with the goals and outcomes in the classroom and we would be able to spend more time on the actual writing instead of sitting and thinking of what these goals may or may not mean.