What Is Academic Writing?

In the article, What Is Academic Writing, Lennie Irvine gives us advice on how to help college essays and become better writers. What I took from this article is that you will be a more successful writer when you understand what you are doing and what the paper will be on. In high school I didn’t have English classes that really focused on how to write a good paper until my senior year. Senior year I had a teacher that really focused on preparing us how to write a good paper for college. I have only written a few papers and the ones I actually felt good about and actually put the time into were the ones I was interested in. Like Lennie Irvine said in his article writing is like being blind folded with your hands behind your back because you do not know who you are writing for and most the time what your writing about. The section in the article where Lennie Irvine talked about the myths stood out to me because I always saw more as rules I had to follow to become a good writer. I agreed with a lot of what was said. I believe that you should have very few to no grammar errors in your paper. Also good transition sentences are very important. Good transition sentences help make your paper make more sense. In your writing you should always have something that supports your claim. I look at essays like if you were to walk up to somebody on the street and hand them your paper, they should be able to read it and not be confused at the end.