Application: Scholarly Writing

Application: Scholarly Writing

Introduction

According to Introduction to Scholarly Writing: Finding a Scholarly Voice study notes, one of the first rules for a scholarly voice is to rely on solid quality evidence and good grammar, spelling and mechanics. Furthermore, Introduction to Scholarly Writing: Purpose, Audience, and Evidence speaks to writing with a specific purpose to a designated audience using “convincing evidence, presented objectively and based on logic” (p. 5) rather than bias and opinion.

Discussion

In this paragraph, the author tends to argue that personal computer has been widely used at home, workplace and schools nowadays, and he also argues that most people can now afford to buy personal computers based on the statistics from an article in Business Week. The author first introduced the phenomena, and then brought forward its impact and one of the reasons for the phenomena that is the cost affordable to the most people. Although the argument seemed to be logically reasoned, and it also reflected kind of feelings from the general public, it has weakness in terms of scholarly writing appropriateness to the target audience such as scholars and scholar-practitioners.

The sample paragraph seems to be riddled with generalizations that are not backed up by evidence. The author tends to argue that personal computer has been widely used at home, workplace and schools nowadays, and he also argues that most people can now afford to buy personal computers based on the statistics from an article in Business Week. The author first introduced the phenomena, and then brought forward its impact and one of the reasons for the phenomena that are the cost affordable to the most people. Although the argument seemed to be logically reasoned, and it also reflected kind of feelings from the general public, it has weakness in terms of scholarly writing appropriateness to the target audience such as scholars and scholar-practitioners. Conclusively, the author states that there is “widespread availability” of personal computers. However, the author does not say where (or in what country or countries) or to whom the personal computer is available. The author also does not back this statement up with any researched details other than the source from Business Week.

Scholarly writing must rely on solid evidence rather than strong feelings to show the truth of the assertions (Laureate Education). The evidence in the article; however, does not prove to be quality evidence since the reader does not know which article ...