{"id":105,"date":"2019-04-16T12:38:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/scholarlywriting\/?post_type=chapter&p=105"},"modified":"2019-11-03T17:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T17:58:04","slug":"introduction-to-scholarly-writing","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/scholarlywriting\/chapter\/introduction-to-scholarly-writing\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Scholarly Writing","rendered":"Introduction to Scholarly Writing"},"content":{"raw":"When you first enter university, you may be unfamiliar with scholarly writing. This genre of writing is associated with post-secondary education and many academic fields including nursing. When learning to write in a scholarly way, it is important to consider both the content of your writing<\/strong> (what you write) and the presentation of your ideas<\/strong> (how you write).\r\n\r\n\"Highlights\r\n

Figure 1.3:<\/strong> Scholarly writing<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Fundamentals of Scholarly Writing include:<\/h2>\r\n
    \r\n \t
  • Presentation of ideas in clear, succinct, accurate, and congruent ways.<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Incorporation of your original thought and a critical lens.<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Credible evidence to support your thoughts.<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Attention to structure, paragraph construction, grammar, language, tone, voice, audience, etc.\u2014all of these are addressed in future chapters.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nScholarly writing is completely different from conversations or other types of writing. When you speak, send a text, or write in a diary, you use informal language<\/strong>. For example, a phone text typically lacks attention to structure and grammar, is short and conversational in tone, and may include acronyms, symbols, and emojis. These non-scholarly formats often use colloquial phrasing\u2014<\/strong>familiar, everyday, slang terms. More to come on that in Chapter 5.\r\n\r\nSome of you are enrolled or may choose to enroll in a writing course; if so, this book will complement your learning. The fundamentals of scholarly writing are expanded on in each chapter of this book.","rendered":"

    When you first enter university, you may be unfamiliar with scholarly writing. This genre of writing is associated with post-secondary education and many academic fields including nursing. When learning to write in a scholarly way, it is important to consider both the content of your writing<\/strong> (what you write) and the presentation of your ideas<\/strong> (how you write).<\/p>\n

    \"Highlights<\/p>\n

    Figure 1.3:<\/strong> Scholarly writing<\/p>\n

    Fundamentals of Scholarly Writing include:<\/h2>\n
      \n
    • Presentation of ideas in clear, succinct, accurate, and congruent ways.<\/li>\n
    • Incorporation of your original thought and a critical lens.<\/li>\n
    • Credible evidence to support your thoughts.<\/li>\n
    • Attention to structure, paragraph construction, grammar, language, tone, voice, audience, etc.\u2014all of these are addressed in future chapters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Scholarly writing is completely different from conversations or other types of writing. When you speak, send a text, or write in a diary, you use informal language<\/strong>. For example, a phone text typically lacks attention to structure and grammar, is short and conversational in tone, and may include acronyms, symbols, and emojis. These non-scholarly formats often use colloquial phrasing\u2014<\/strong>familiar, everyday, slang terms. More to come on that in Chapter 5.<\/p>\n

      Some of you are enrolled or may choose to enroll in a writing course; if so, this book will complement your learning. The fundamentals of scholarly writing are expanded on in each chapter of this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-105","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":92,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/scholarlywriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/scholarlywriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/scholarlywriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/scholarlywriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/scholarlywriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/scholarlywriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/105\/revisions\/1934"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/scholarlywriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/92"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/scholarlywriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/105\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/scholarlywriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/scholarlywriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/scholarlywriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/scholarlywriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}