Introduction

Students, in their academic life, do research in which they include findings of the research in the form of reports, essays, dissertations, reflective essays, and others.  These are forms of academic writing that are developed by students based on different industries to include valuable insights.  In addition, the skill of academic writing is also helpful in developing career as it helps in understanding the the key factors of formal communication. 

1. Essays

What is an Essay?

Among academic writings, an essay is one of the most popular, including an analysis of a topic that includes different ideas and arguments. The essay also includes adopting some theories to interpret evidence as well as arguments. Here, it is to be noted that essays focus on a key thought, and argumentative analysis of the thought. Hence, essays are proper example of critical writing.

How Essays Are Used in Academic Settings

Essays in an academic setting include evaluation of conceptual thinking of students based on development of augmentations (Sung et al. 2021). In addition to that, essays are used to illustrate theories, models, debates, and others, so that the ability of students to extract diverse sources can be assessed. This academic form also increases the ability of students to learn about various referencing styles, structure of academic writings, and others. An essay includes summarising information that is gathered while analysing a topic and generating themes to make a conclusion about the topic.

 

Relevance to Industry and Professional Practice

An essay helps to develop analytical thinking, which is an important skill for people to work in law, consulting, management, and other industries (Greetham, 2022).Analytical thinking helps to enhance the evaluation of factors that are required to work in mentioned sectors. An essay also includes building arguments based on findings that help professionals who are working in management and marketing fields to make marketing pitches, briefings, and presentations for clients and others. Medicine, engineering, HR, and other files required to make correct decisions as per situation. Essays help students who are going to work in these fields to make the right decisions, which are based on evidence.

Relevance to Creative Industries

Creative fields require analysis of various new ideas and their relevance to topic. Essay writing helps professionals to include an assessment of new ideas and relevance of these ideas to their work (Bean and Melzer, 2021). In addition to that, corporate sector also includes marketing proposals for clients, strategic documents in which the format and approach of an essay are followed.

2. Reports

What is a Report?

The report highlights facts and data that are logical and also includes recommended strategies (Badke, 2021). There are a few aspects of the report, which are headings, tables, graphs, and the analytical section, and others. These aspects help a student to apply theories to evaluate real work issues and gain valuable insight about these issues. This academic form also includes recommendations based on findings of a topic

How Reports Are Used in Academic Settings

This academic format is used to develop lab reports, business reports, and Engineering project reports, and others to gain insights about a specific topic. Students gain insights into process of making business planning, engineering analysis, and others by writing a report in their academic life.

Relevance to Industry and Professional Practice

Market analysis, internal reports, and audit reports are made by following the structure and process of an academic report (Ariastuti and Wahyudin, 2022). In the engineering industry, this format is followed to make structural reports. In addition to that, the healthcare industry follows this process of academic reports to make patient reports, incident reports, and others.

Relevance to Creative Industries

The creative industry also uses this report format for making client briefs. This format is used in the creative industry to enhance clarity, problem-solving and professional presentation skills, which are important parts of this field. This format also helps professionals in creative fields to enhance professional communication, which is an important factor in this industry.

3. Reflective Writing

What is Reflective Writing?

Reflective writing includes experiences of students based on their learning journal, emotions, reactions, and thoughts (Sudirman et al. 2021). This academic writing style also includes the journey of a student in academic learning. There are certain frameworks that are used to write reflective writings, which are Gibbs' Model, Schon’s reflective practice, and others. These frameworks are used to highlight key aspects of journey of a student.

How Reflective Writings Are Used in Academic Settings

Reflective writings are used in academic settings to increase understanding of students about their learning and to gain understanding about areas in which they need to improve. This academic writing style helps a student to enhance self-awareness and emotional intelligence, which are important to grow in professional life. This academic form of writing also includes strategies in which students can improve the areas in which they are lacking.

Relevance to Industry and Professional Practice

This academic writing is used in different fields such as nursing, social work, business leadership, arts, and others. People who are working in creative fields include this academic writing style in creative processes, client feedback, project outcomes, and others. Healthcare professionals, business leaders, and others use this academic writing format to enhance professional development. Project managers use this academic writing format, which is useful to enhance future project design and manage risk in better ways.

Relevance to Creative Industries

This academic writing style is adopted by people who are working in creative fields, so that they can gain development in professional life and include continuous improvement throughout their careers. This writing format is used by creative professionals to identify areas in which they need improvement, which can help them grow in their professional lives.

Conclusion

It can be concluded that academic writing plays an important role in shaping the knowledge and skills of students that are used in future professions. Essays, reports, and reflective writing are an important part of academic writing, which includes gaining insight about relevant issues related to industry and developing ideas to mitigate such issues with relevant strategies.

 

 

 

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