Journal — Analysis of Professional/Academic Writing

Provide the titles of these documents in a short introduction to this 2-page analysis.

You don’t need to post the samples.

1. The main assignment: please write a 2-page, double-spaced analysis of how these authors establish credibility as seen in the writing and use of language, syntax, and other features of academic/professional writing.  I want you to focus on the sentence-level writing (syntax, active voice, etc.) but identify and comment on other conventions authors use to establish their ethos or credibility with their audience.
2. Please refer to the documents I discuss in the weekly lecture: “Teaching the Conventions of Academic Discourse” and the website from Lumen Learning.  These two sources are found under our Writing Unit Readings.
3. This assignment you are writing is a 2-page analysis incorporating BOTH samples and BOTH sources.  You can provide a short introduction for the reader but then discuss the ethos and academic nature of the samples via the writing strategies used in these documents.
4. Include at least 4 specific references (note the reference, cite it in your writing) to the two sources (“Teaching the Conventions . . .” and Lumen Learning).