What is “Academic” Writing?

Reading What is “Academic” Writing? by L. Lennie Irvin made me aware of how we all tend to tackle writing assignments the same way whether or not we truly like the idea of writing. Growing up we were all taught the basics to writing an essay, we had to make our message clear, understand who we are writing for, presenting our purpose well, all with making it all seem genuine without an underlying forced tone in the writing. What stood out to me was when Irvine brought up the fact that “In college, everything’s an argument” and continued to write a guide to help us students debunk assignments (something that I think will come in very handy for my following years in school). Now, Irvine does state the obvious at first, that typically a writing assignment is a student trying to analyse a given subject, experiment, etc. They then lead onto talking about common types of writing assignments which was actually a new thing to me. The different types consist of closed writing assignments, semi-open writing assignments, and open writing assignments. Each one is dependent on the type of claim or thesis the student chooses, a closed assignments typically states an answer for the reader meanwhile an open assignment leaves room to talk about different sub topics that come from one main topic. In the end Irvine explains many writing tips that I plan to take into account when writing future papers whether they focus on analysis a plot of a novel or simply just developing topics of interest from scientific papers.