Maria Christine Bernadette Tumabiene Grade 11- St. Christopher

TVL-Tourism Management

English 111-A

*What you think is the state of academic writing in the Philippine context?

Academic writing is an important kind of writing most especially in professional writers. But in my own opinion, I admit that we are lack of readership. Because not all writer’s admit a matter of fact. According to the book I’ve read teacher Butch Dalisay said “I’d rather have a thousand of readers at home than to have 10,000 readers in New York.” And actually mean it. He proved that the idea of the task of writing is removed and extraneous to context.

As what I have learned in our lessons, we can say that it is an academic writing if the writer gives out research and listen to the opinion of the others. Then why is it some of our writers write their own journal according to what they know and according to their own opinion? And then they published it and considered it as an academic writing already. Is it right? The problem is that we did not follow the rule of academic writing before we published or submit our journal/literature. Sometimes we use informal vocabulary in which it is not applicable in academic writing. First and foremost we must avoid using informal vocabularies in an academic writing. But some of our writers still did that and consider their writing as an academic one. This is why teacher Dalisay assertions about writing in the Philippines, truthful and honest and self-deprecating, can only be important and relevant because academic writing is quite formal.

On the other hand, we cannot gives out instructions in our academic writing because it will consider as a court order.

That’s why teacher Dalisay added, “the Filipino is not a theory, they are not academic.” This means that we, Filipinos has a lacked of knowledge and understanding when it comes to academic writing. We need a lot of practice to gain a successful knowledge in this particular learning. We must first learn what is academic writing is? What is the importance of academic writing? What are it’s features? And what is the difference of academic writing in other kinds of writing. After we learned all of this, we can apply a perfect way of writing an academic writing. We can possibly learn all things if we have a determination to learn and to understand what we have learned.