Academic writing is not something you sit down and do in one session. It is a PROCESS of several stages.
Look through each of the following stages, and get to know this process before you start writing.
- Understand the task
- concept
- terminology
- audience
- form
- function
- Collect your data
- books
- articles
- programs
- media
- lecture
- Analyse your material
- test data
- determine relevance
- collect quotes
- revisit the brief
- discard unwanted data
- Organise your material
- create structure
- use chronology
- identify themes
- follow a biography
- establish importance
- Write your assignment
- write drafts
- add material
- edit drafts
- check grammar & spelling
- compile bibliography
- Present your results
- select writing mode
- choose fonts
- devise page layout
- titles, headers, footers
- binder and presentation
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