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Critical Analysis of Academic Writing Errors

Explore the common problems in academic writing such as plagiarism, forced vocabulary, in-text citations, and more. Learn why contractions, fluff, and lack of elaboration hinder the quality of your work.

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Critical Analysis of Academic Writing Errors

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  1. Persuasive Essay Problem Areas

  2. Plagiarism • About 50% of you PLAGIARIZED • What does this mean? • You did NOT cite the information you used from sites. • In other words, many of you had facts or statistics in your papers and you did not say where you got it from. THIS IS A PROBLEM. Why?

  3. Heading • There is a required heading and title for EVERY final copy. I put the requirements on my website. • Next time, I WILL TAKE POINTS OFF for incorrect and missing headings and titles.

  4. Forced Vocabulary • Some of you added sentences JUST to get your vocabulary in • It sounded forced, and therefore, did not receive full credit. It should sound natural.

  5. In-text Citations • Some were incorrect – article titles need to be in quotation marks • Ex – (Hurt “Dust Bowl”). • Some paragraphs had ZERO in-text citations. What’s wrong with that?

  6. “Now” • What’s wrong with using the word “now” in this paper? • “Now, the Dust Bowlers ………”

  7. Works Cited • For the most part, it was good; however, some people were missing some of the sources they cited. (Surviving the Dust Bowl docu) • On the other hand, some people had sources listed that were not cited in the paper, telling me that you did not cite your information.

  8. Contractions • Can’t – cannot • Should’ve – Should have • Why do we not use contractions in academic papers?

  9. Fluff • On some papers I wrote the word “fluff” because there was information that just didn’t need to be there and was unnecessary

  10. Elaboration • BIG OOPSIES • So many of you had awesome facts • The problem? • You didn’t elaborate using your own words! I don’t care what Douglas Hurt said, I want to know how you connect it to your position statement.

  11. Ending a paragraph with a quote • What’s wrong with that? • NEVER DO IT

  12. Pasted • Past or passed, never pasted • (UNLESS YOU’RE GLUING SOMETHING)

  13. PEER-EDITING • SOME were great. • Others were not.

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