Essay on Academic vs Mainstream Writing

“Additionally, issues of identity and values are important factors in neophytes ' abilities and willingness to learn to write in and for new workplaces, as they must choose between ways of thinking and writing with which they are comfortable and new ways that seem foreign or at odds with their identities and values” (Wardle 285) When I was first accepted into The University of Arkansas, the first thing that came to my mind was to put effort into my grades and into building my resume. Those would be my top priories. Before I knew it I had been accepted into a discourse community of members that were striving for the same ideals that I was-The Greek fraternity Lambda Chi Alpha. Through the proses of being an initiate, I learned life long core values of community between other members. Interviewing the president of Lambda Chi Alpha, Luke Crenshaw, I uncovered the rigorous involvement of academic writing skills and how that plays a giant roll in this discourse community. These benefits are included in the values and beliefs of a discourse community.

The author’s purpose of writing an article can differ to major extremes depending on the type of discourse. At times the two discourse purposes can be similar, but a majority of discourses tend to lean towards a certain audience and purpose for writing. Academic discourses tend to weigh more on the informative side of persuasion than popular discourses do. The informative technique is accomplished through multiple studies, and experiments which back up the writer’s argument. Academic discourses are usually very fact heavy, and include numerous amounts of researches or studies. This amplifies the purpose for the article, and shows that the main target audience for an academic discourse is scholars, researchers, scientists, and advanced students. In contrast, a popular discourse usually falls towards the entertainment side of the persuasion spectrum. Popular news articles and discourses use only the important or interesting facts from the original article to keep the audience from getting bored. Popular discourses are mainly concerned with the audience and their opinions, rather than just the basic facts and research. The audiences that popular discourses

Throughout my life I have outworked everyone at my grade level being a late birthday. I have been the youngest in my grade since preschool and was behind because I was not as developed as all of the other students in my class. Starting in first grade I was not able to read like the other kids were so instead of being held back, I took extra classes with a tutor who taught me how to read just as well if not better than all of the kids in my grade. I have always loved sports and been very competitive, I started playing baseball when I was nine years old. Once again I was the youngest kid on my team all the way through my career. When I tried out for my first travel team I did not make it because I was nowhere near as good as the other boys who tried out.

Ultimately, the data analysis should bring the researcher the findings, i.e. the answers to research questions, via a step wise process described in “coding” (Merriam 177). I used this process of analytical coding, category construction, category naming and organization to generate codes for my Data collection report and genre analysis. The data, analyzed under these different codes, gives answers to research questions of my extended writing project. I also utilized the Wadsworth Guide to learn about different rhetorical appeals, such as ethos, pathos and logos. The Wadsworth Guide explained how logos appeals to reason and logic, ethos appeals to credibility and authority, and pathos appeals to emotions (page 183). I used this knowledge to further analysis my codes and extract meaning, in perspective of the effect of these genres on inter-community Discourse and beyond. This theoretical framework addresses questions of what literature and genres convey meaningful information about the written part of research in my discourse

In general terms, there are two types of people in terms of scientific competence. To appeal to each type of person, there are similarly two types of scientific writing. For the well-educated scientist, there are scholarly scientific articles which follow a specific form and give immense amounts of information about a specific study executed by other scholars. These types of articles can be used as references in other scholarly articles, and can be used as the basis for the other type of scientific writing: popular science. The majority of people who are interested in scientific study would struggle to comprehend scholarly articles and would prefer not to take the time out of their day to

Hyejung Ju & Soobum Lee's "The Korean Wave and Asian Americans: the ethnic meanings of transnational Korean pop culture in the USA" provides readers two perspective of Korean popular culture in American society. They use the method of in-depth interviews with 15 Midwest college female students, all recognized as Asian Americans. First and foremost, developed as main ethnic media in American, Korean pop culture identified majority of Asian American youth. The similarities in Korean drama with East Asian cultural contents have firmed its outstanding pan-ethnic identity for Asian groups. What's more, the bold romantic relationship in Korean drama established strong sympathies among Asian Americans. Most participants were deeply touched by mostly school-based plots of young couples romance, regardless of their social marginality or feminine sensitivity. Meanwhile, Korean television productions captured detailed real world settings towards the audience, such as different social classes. In conclusion, the popularizing of Korean culture among Asian American youth largely

There are different styles of scholarly writing and each of the writing has certain format that students will have to follow for their field of study. Research paper is one of the writing that students will encounter in their major classes. In my past Child Development class, especially CHDV 123 writing research paper was required in the class. After writing the literature review about observation and how the observer have to be sure that the information he or she present have to be valid, it made me think about credibility in research writing which help me develop my research question. Furthermore, with the research paper, we as students have to make sure that our research has credibility or the research is not valid. Therefore, credibility is crucial in this field. However, as a student who major in Child Development, we focus more on qualitative research which requires us to make sure that there is credibility in our paper. By having credibility in our paper, it allows us to build trustworthiness in our research and eliminating the bias in our research. According to Kopala, she states that, “Trustworthiness also encompasses efforts to reduce or at the very least to make explicit sources of bias by the researcher.” (30) In this research report, my research question was wondering the importance of having credibility in research writing for Child Development major?” In this research, I will be using two different methods to

The definition of academic writing states” any writing done to fulfill a requirement of a college or university. Academic writing is also used for publications that are read by teacher and researchers or presented at conferences.” I think lab reports can be a part of this category. It has multiple writing parts as well as analyzing parts required by your professors or teachers. But there is a big difference between the level of difficulties from high school and college.

Nowadays, Korean wave is so famous in global rapidly. Korean wave is not only expanding in Asia, but Korean wave is expanding including in the Middle East, Oceania, Europe, and the United States. Korean wave was starting in 1990s. Korean drama and Korean music (K - Pop) were the first wave that spread in Southeast Asia. Then Korean wave became a new trend of the world because it was used by social media and internet to expand in global. In the 21st century, Korean wave is increasing growth, such as Korean drama, Korean music (K - pop), including tourism, food, culture and Korean language. Korean wave makes people can listen Korean music (K - pop) widely, addict to Korean drama and then it is inspiration of some people that they want to learn

Hallyu or “Korean Wave” is the term that first introduced by Beijing journalist in the mid-1990s. This term is associated with the widespread of the popularity of “all things Korean” beyond the border of Korea (Lie 2012), especially to Asian countries and even non-Asian countries such as North and South American, Middle East and Europe. The “all things Korean” are inclusive of soap opera (also known as television drama), film, music, fashion, cuisine and other elements. However, there are some widespread cultures have sparked controversial debates, noticeably the issues bound to plastic surgery. Nevertheless, in this essay, I am not going to debate the controversial issues, instead I am going to discuss on how Hallyu has impacted the

In the years following the collapse of Asia’s economy in 1998, South Korea turned to alternative exports to assist in both the restructuring of the nation’s financial strength and it’s reputation in international markets. As a result, pop-cultural exports such as films, television dramas, pop music and celebrities associated with these forms of media discourses have found growing popularity in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan; as well as many other East and Southeast Asian countries. This growing popularity of pop-cultural exports has proved to be a tool in constructing a contemporary national image and encouraged the emergence of the ‘Korean Wave’. According to Huang (2009) ‘Hallyu’ or the ‘Korean Wave’ refers to the “...popularity of South Korean culture in other Asian countries” however, with the increased availability of digital media and the increase of social networking, the definition of Hallyu has grown to include Western Societies.

Music has become a daily consumption of modern society; Either the high or the bottom class, everybody loves music. Among all music genre, pop music dominates the playlists of music lovers. The Instruments that are widely used in pop music is familiar, so that the melody, rhythm, and the beat producedcan be easily accepted by the public. Coupled with simple yet “eye-catching” lyric, also easily to memorize, give another value to the pop music genre. However, there is one kind of pop music which is now caught world’s attention, that is K-Pop or Korean Pop. Korean Pop is a part of the Korean Wave. Accordimg toSue Jin Lee (2011), she said that, “Korean Wave refers to the significantly increased popularity of South Korean culture around the world”, all the culture, inclluding dramas and films production, language, and literature, and also music industry; and K-Pop focuses on the music industry in Korea. K-Pop is a genre of music specifically comes from South Korea which combines music with dance performance. The synchronization between dance movements and the beat of music become a highlight performance of

Korean wave (Hallyu in Korean) is term coined by Chinese media to describe the popularity of the Korean cultural products in China. It is said that the first wave of Hallyu is brought by Korean TV series that became a huge hit in China and Japan in mid 1990s. Two dramas, What Is Love About (1997) and Stars in My Heart (1999), are usually credited with kickstarting the Korean wave (Huat, 2012). In the early to mid-2000s, two more dramas, Winter Sonata (2002) and Dae Jang Geum (2003), catalyzed the Korean wave by shattering ratings records, not only in South Korea, but also in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam (Chen, 2016).

Cases may be brought in the first instance before a lay magistrate (justice of the peace), a magistrate, or a judge in the Supreme Court, according to the seriousness of the offense or the amount of property involved. The Supreme Court also has appellate jurisdiction. Final appeal rests with the seven-member Court of Appeals, appointed on the advice of the prime minister in consultation with the leader of the opposition. The attorney general, who need not be a member of parliament, is appointed by the governor-general on the advice of the prime minister. The constitution gives power to the Court of Appeal and the parliament to refer cases to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom. However, Jamaica was among the eight nations (Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago) whose leaders met in Kingston on 9 June 2003 to ratify a treaty to establish the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). A special "gun court" considers cases involving the illegal use or possession of firearms or ammunition. The judiciary is independent but is overburdened and backlogged because of a lack of trained personnel. Recent increases in salaries, training programs for judicial personnel, and improvement in court facilities may eventually serve to improve efficiency and processing of cases. In 1995, to reduce the backlog of cases, the government initiated a night court, but little progress has

Negative effects and criticisms accompanied continuing success of Korean wave. One of these is the rise of “Korean Tribe.” This term refers to Korean wave followers who are wanna-be of their favorite Korean stars. Most of them are women. They would imitate the fashion, hairstyles, make-up, gestures or even all the way up in having plastic surgeries (“The Korean Wave”, n.d.). In the article “South Korea Culture Wave Spreads across Asia” written by Louisa Lim, Dr. Chung Jong Pil pointed out that there is 30% increase of foreigners who went to Korea to undergo plastic surgery. He added that these are mostly Chinese and Japanese who wanted to make their looks more like